What is the promise of developmental evolution? Part II: A causal explanation of evolutionary innovations may be impossible

Journal of Experimental Zoology

Volumn 291, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 305-309

  Wagner, G P ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EDITORIAL; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHENOTYPE; RESEARCH; THEORETICAL MODEL; XENOPUS;

ANIMAL; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHENOTYPE; RESEARCH; SELECTION (GENETICS); SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; XENOPUS;

EID: 0035892244     PISSN: 0022104X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.1130     Document Type: Note

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