Toward a population genetic framework of developmental evolution: The costs, limits, and consequences of phenotypic plasticity

BioEssays

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 71-81

  Snell Rood, Emilie C ^a   Van Dyken, James David ^a   Cruickshank, Tami ^a   Wade, Michael J ^a   Moczek, Armin P ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Costs and limits; Development; Modularity; Mutation accumulation; Phenotypic plasticity; Pleiotropy; Relaxed selection

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POPULATION GENETICS; REVIEW; THEORY;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 74949103986     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.200900132     Document Type: Review

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