Treehoppers produce highly diverse structures called helmets. To do so they seem to have exploited the genetic potential, long inhibited in other winged insects, to develop wings on a particular anatomical segment. See Letter p.83
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Moczek, A. The origins of novelty. Nature 473, 34–35 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/473034a
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