Studying morphological integration and modularity at multiple levels: Concepts and analysis

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1649, 2014, Pages

  Klingenberg, Christian Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allometry; Covariation; Evolution; Geometric morphometrics; Modularity; Morphological integration

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ANATOMY; COEVOLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY; GENETIC VARIATION; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY;

EID: 84925231753     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0249     Document Type: Review

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