The beak of the other finch: Coevolution of genetic covariance structure and developmental modularity during adaptive evolution

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1543, 2010, Pages 1111-1126

  Badyaev, Alexander V ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive landscape; Developmental abnormalities; Developmental evolution; Facilitated developmental variation; Gmatrix; Multivariate selection

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COEVOLUTION; COLONIZATION; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; HISTORICAL RECORD; NATURAL SELECTION;

AVES; CARPODACUS MEXICANUS;

EID: 77950817571     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0285     Document Type: Review

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