Idealization in evolutionary developmental investigation: A tension between phenotypic plasticity and normal stages

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1540, 2010, Pages 679-690

  Love, Alan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Idealization; Model organisms; Normal stages; Periodization; Phenotypic plasticity; Variation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; COMPENSATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENETIC VARIATION; MODEL TEST; ONTOGENY; PERIODICITY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; RESEARCH WORK;

EID: 76749112929     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0262     Document Type: Article

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