Article
Fluctuating asymmetry: a biological monitor of environmental and genomic stress.
Heredity - 1 Apr 1992
Parsons P A
Abstract excerpt
Increased fluctuating asymmetry (FA) of morphological traits occurs under environmental and genomic stress. Such conditions will therefore lead to a reduction in developmental homeostasis. Based upon temperature extreme experiments, relatively severe stress is needed to increase FA under field conditions. Increasing asymmetry tends, therefore, to occur in stressed marginal habitats. Genetic perturbations implying...
Topics
- Animals
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- Homeostasis
- Phenotype
- Recombination, Genetic
- Stress, Physiological
- Transformation, Genetic