Vestigialization and loss of nonfunctional characters

Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 249-268

  Fong, Daniel W ^a   Kane, Thomas C ^b   Culver, David C ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Eyeless; Flightless; Mutation; Pleiotropy; Reduction

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 0000888766     PISSN: 00664162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.es.26.110195.001341     Document Type: Article

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