The effect of genetic and environmental variation on genital size in male drosophila: Canalized but developmentally unstable

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Dreyer, Austin P ^a   Shingleton, Alexander W ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENITAL SIZE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HYPOALLOMETRY; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MALE GENITAL TRACT PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; ORGAN SIZE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENT; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC VARIATION; GENITALIA, MALE; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; ORGAN SIZE;

EID: 82955201619     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028278     Document Type: Article

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