Temperature-dependent plasticity of segment number in an arthropod species: The centipede Strigamia maritima

Evolution and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 487-492

  Vedel, Vincent ^a   Chipman, Ariel D ^b,c   Akam, Michael ^b   Arthur, Wallace ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; CLINE; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; REACTION NORM; SELECTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; MORPHOGENESIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BODY PATTERNING; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE;

ARTHROPODA; CHILOPODA; GEOPHILOMORPHA; STRIGAMIA MARITIMA;

EID: 47249150106     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2008.00259.x     Document Type: Article

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