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| | RICHARD G. VOGT |
 | | The Endopterygota represent one group of neopterous insects (>83% of all insect species) and includes moths, beetles, bees, ants and flies, but excludes cockroaches, grasshoppers, crickets, earwigs and termites. |
 | | The bugs (hemipterans) are considered a sister group with the Endopteryota, and with the Endopterygota, include >94% of all insect species. |
 | | As a consequence of our effort, demonstrating an OBP from a bug (hemipteran), we can say that the OBP gene was present in the ancestor of both the Endopterygota and Hemipteran insects and that these genes are therefore represented in >94% of all insects, which is a really huge number of species. |
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