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Using heterochrony to detect modularity in the evolution of stem diversity in the plant family moringaceae.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Apr 2006
Olson Mark E, Rosell Julieta A
Abstract excerpt
Organisms are made up of semiautonomous parts or modules, but identifying the limits of modules is not straightforward. Covariation between morphological features across the adults of a clade can identify suites of characters as putative modules. We contrast such an approach for delimiting modules with one that includes inferences of heterochrony, evolutionary change in the timing of developmental events. That...
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