A little leg may reveal something big about how closely related insect species can drastically differ in body shape, according to a new study. The team imaged live cells of fruit flies in the last ...

Centipedes are not insects either. But centipedes are more closely related to insects than worms are. And that is because ...

Insect wings represent a pivotal evolutionary innovation that has underpinned the remarkable radiation of the Insecta. This field, at the intersection of evolution and developmental biology (evo-devo) ...

Centipedes and millipedes are frequently mistaken for one another due to their numerous legs and similar names, but they are quite different creatures. Centipedes have flat bodies with one pair of ...

Most of the volume of epithelial cell bodies containing nuclei are aligned as a monolayer on the apical (upper) side. They extend pillarlike cell processes in a basal (downward) direction. At the ...