Developmental Constraints in a Comparative Framework: A Test Case Using Variations in Phalanx Number during Amniote Evolution

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution

Volumn 296, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 8-22

  Richardson, Michael K ^a,d   Chipman, Ariel D ^b,c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FORELIMB; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; LOCOMOTION; MORPHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMAL POPULATION GROUPS; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; FORELIMB; GENOTYPE; LOCOMOTION; MORPHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 0042846132     PISSN: 0022104X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.13     Document Type: Review

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