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The genetics of ray pattern variation in Caenorhabditis briggsae.
BMC evolutionary biology - 5 Jan 2005
Baird Scott Everet, Davidson Cynthia R, Bohrer Justin C
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: How does intraspecific variation relate to macroevolutionary change in morphology? This question can be addressed in species in which derived characters are present but not fixed. In rhabditid nematodes, the arrangement of the nine bilateral pairs of peripheral sense organs (rays) in tails of males is often the most highly divergent character between species. The development of ray pattern involves...
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