The developmental basis of variational modularity: Insights from quantitative genetics, morphometrics, and developmental biology

Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 377-385

  Mitteroecker, Philipp ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND COGNITION RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Canalization; Genotype phenotype map; Modularity; Morphological integration; Phenotype landscape; QTL

Indexed keywords

EID: 72249083317     PISSN: 00713260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11692-009-9075-6     Document Type: Article

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