On the adaptive accuracy of directional asymmetry in insect wing size

Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2855-2867

  Pélabon, Christophe ^a   Hansen, Thomas F ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Adaptive accuracy; Developmental stability; Directional asymmetry; Fluctuating asymmetry; Insect wing

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ASYMMETRY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; INSECT; LITERATURE REVIEW; SIZE; WING MORPHOLOGY;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FORELIMB; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HISTOLOGY; HYMENOPTERA; INSECT; LEPIDOPTERA; MALE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTS; LEPIDOPTERA; MALE; WING;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 54849413015     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00495.x     Document Type: Article

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