Evolution of morphological allometry

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1320, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 58-75

  Pélabon, Christophe ^a   Firmat, Cyril ^a   Bolstad, Geir H ^a   Voje, Kjetil L ^b   Houle, David ^c   Cassara, Jason ^c   Rouzic, Arnaud Le ^d   Hansen, Thomas F ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Allometry; Evolutionary constraint; Growth; Macroevolution; Microevolution; Scaling; Shape; Size

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MORPHOLOGICAL ALLOMETRY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION; ALLOMETRY; EVOLUTIONARY CONSTRAINT; GROWTH; MACROEVOLUTION; MICROEVOLUTION; SCALING; SHAPE; SIZE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84904389884     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.12470     Document Type: Article

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