Article
Developmental variability during early embryonic development of zebra fish, Danio rerio.
Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution - 15 Sept 2004
Irmler Ingo, Schmidt Kai, Starck J Matthias
Abstract excerpt
Early vertebrate embryos pass through a period of remarkable morphological similarity. Possible causes for such similarity of early embryos include modularity, developmental constraints, stabilizing selection, canalization, and exhausted genetic variability. Supposedly, each process creates different patterns of variation and covariation of embryonic traits. We study the patterns of variation of the embryonic...
Topics
- Analysis of Variance
- Animals
- Biological Evolution
- Biometry
- Body Weights and Measures
- Embryo, Nonmammalian
- Eye
- Genetic Variation
- Morphogenesis
- Phenotype
- Principal Component Analysis
- Somites
- Time Factors
- Zebrafish
