An international team of researchers with participation of Harald Letsch, from the Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research has found evidence that shows that many modern winged insects developed from a terrestrial ancestor, not from one that lived in the sea. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describe their large-scale phylogenomic analyses of both Polyneoptera and Pterygota and what they found. [read more]
Wipfler, Letsch, Frandsen et. al. (2019): Evolutionary history of Polyneoptera and its implications for our understanding of early winged insects. Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
