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Phenotypic divergence along lines of genetic variance.
The American naturalist - 1 Jan 2005
McGuigan Katrina, Chenoweth Stephen F, Blows Mark W
Abstract excerpt
Natural populations inhabiting the same environment often independently evolve the same phenotype. Is this replicated evolution a result of genetic constraints imposed by patterns of genetic covariation? We looked for associations between directions of morphological divergence and the orientation of the genetic variance-covariance matrix (G) by using an experimental system of morphological evolution in two...
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