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Inferring developmental constraint and constraint release: primordial germ cell determination mechanisms as examples.

Journal of theoretical biology - 21 Sept 2007

Crother Brian I, White Mary E, Johnson Andrew D

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Developmental constraint and its converse constraint release are significant concepts in understanding pattern and process in macroevolution. The purpose of this paper is to propose a two-step method for identifying constraints and constraint release. The first step is a phylogenetic optimization procedure to identify which trait/process is primitive and which is derived. The primitive trait is inferred to be the...

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PMID: 17602708
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2007.05.035

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