Variance in developmental event timing is greatest at low biological levels: Implications for heterochrony

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 581-590

  Tills, Oliver ^a   Rundle, Simon D ^a   Spicer, John I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inter individual variation; Mollusca; Pond snail; Radix balthica; Variance partitioning

Indexed keywords

EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HATCHING; HETEROCHRONY (ONTOGENY); INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; POND; SNAIL; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

GASTROPODA; LYMNAEIDAE; MOLLUSCA; RADIX (GASTROPOD); RADIX BALTHICA;

EID: 84885856818     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bij.12158     Document Type: Article

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