The revolution of canalization and the breaking of Von Baer's Laws: Modeling the evolution of development with epistasis

Evolution

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 647-656

  Rice, Sean H ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Canalization; Epistasis; Evolution of development; Phenotype landscape; Quantitative genetics

Indexed keywords

CANALIZATION; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EPISTASIS; EVOLUTION;

EID: 0031879153     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1998.tb03690.x     Document Type: Article

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