Developmental constraints versus flexibility in morphological evolution

Nature

Volumn 416, Issue 6883, 2002, Pages 844-847

  Beldade, Patricia ^a   Koops, Kees ^a   Brakefield, Paul M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORPHOLOGY; POPULATION STATISTICS;

EVOLUTION;

BIODIVERSITY;

BUTTERFLY; DIVERSITY INDEX; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; WING;

ARTICLE; BICYCLUS ANYNANA; BIODIVERSITY; BUTTERFLY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION; EYE; FORELIMB; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS); WING;

ARACHNIDA; BICYCLUS; BICYCLUS ANYNANA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0037171795     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/416844a     Document Type: Article

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