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The origins of novelty

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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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Figure 1: The exuberance of treehopper helmets.

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Figure 2: A wing-bearing first thoracic segment.

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  1. Armin P. Moczek is in the Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, and at the National Center for Evolutionary Synthesis (NESCent), Durham, North Carolina 27705, USA.,

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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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