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The evolutionary genetics of canalization.

The Quarterly review of biology - 1 Sept 2005

Flatt Thomas

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Evolutionary genetics has recently made enormous progress in understanding how genetic variation maps into phenotypic variation. However why some traits are phenotypically invariant despite apparent genetic and environmental changes has remained a major puzzle. In the 1940s, Conrad Hal Waddington coined the concept and term "canalization" to describe the robustness of phenotypes to perturbation; a similar concept...

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PMID: 16250465
DOI: 10.1086/432265

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