Measuring evolutionary constraints through the dimensionality of the phenotype: Adjusted bootstrap method to estimate rank of phenotypic covariance matrices

Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 339-353

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

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Dimensionality; Evolutionary constraint; Evolvability; Morphological integration; Phenotypic evolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 76349088941     PISSN: 00713260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11692-009-9066-7     Document Type: Article

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