Extreme environmental change and evolution: Stress-induced morphological variation is strongly concordant with patterns of evolutionary divergence in shrew mandibles

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1441, 2000, Pages 371-377

  Badyaev, Alexander V ^a,b   Foresman, Kerry R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Canalization; Environmental stress; Functional integration; Mosaic evolution; Sorex

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CRANIOMETRY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; INSECTIVORE; MANDIBLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

SOREX; SORICIDAE;

EID: 0034701090     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1011     Document Type: Article

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