Abstract
What goes "99-thump?".
Highlights
Laying aside for the moment the issue of whether any centipede does have 100 legs, this childish joke is an indicator of the special place that these creepycrawliest of arthropods occupy in our collective psyche
The arthropods are one of Earth’s real success stories—there are more species of arthropod than in any other animal phylum, but our knowledge of the genomic basis of arthropod biology is massively skewed towards insects
Trilobites haven’t been seen for a while so this just leaves the myriapods as the only extant arthropod subphylum with no sequenced genome
Summary
A centipede with a wooden leg, . Laying aside for the moment the issue of whether any centipede does have 100 legs, this childish joke is an indicator of the special place that these creepycrawliest of arthropods occupy in our collective psyche. The arthropods are one of Earth’s real success stories—there are more species of arthropod than in any other animal phylum, but our knowledge of the genomic basis of arthropod biology is massively skewed towards insects.
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