A beetle larva with a chorus line of legs is spotlighting the evolutionary steps that insects took to get from multilimbed centipedes to the six-legged specimens common today.
When scientists inactivate two genes in the red flour beetle, the normally six-legged larvae (top) sprout legs on all their abdominal segments (bottom).
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