The origin and diversification of an evolutionary novelty: lessons from Drosophila oogenesis

PhD thesis at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal (2012). This thesis explores the use of dorsal appendages on Drosophilid eggs as a new model system for evolutionary novelty. The work was done by Barbara Vreede at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência in Oeiras, Portugal, under supervision of Élio Sucena.