Measuring morphological integration using eigenvalue variance

Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 157-170

  Pavlicev, Mihaela ^a   Cheverud, James M ^a   Wagner, Günter P ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eigenvalue distribution; Evolutionary constraint; Morphological integration; Phenotypic correlation

Indexed keywords

EID: 69849103645     PISSN: 00713260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11692-008-9042-7     Document Type: Article

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