Biased Polyphenism in Polydactylous Cats Carrying a Single Point Mutation: The Hemingway Model for Digit Novelty

Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 262-275

  Lange, Axel ^a   Nemeschkal, Hans L ^a   Müller, Gerd B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Central Limit Theorem; Developmental thresholds; Evolutionary innovation; Limb development; Phenotypic novelty; Polydactyly; Polyphenism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901007168     PISSN: 00713260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11692-013-9267-y     Document Type: Article

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