Developmental reaction norms: The interactions among allometry, ontogeny and plasticity

Plant Species Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 69-85

  Pigliucci, Massomo ^a,b   Schlichting, Carl D ^a   Jones, Cynthia S ^a   Schwenk, Kurt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

allometry; constraint; development; epigen etics; heterochrony; ontogeny; phenotypic evolution; plasticity; reaction norm; selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030441185     PISSN: 0913557X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-1984.1996.tb00110.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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