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Differences in the selection response of serially repeated color pattern characters: standing variation, development, and evolution.
BMC evolutionary biology - 26 Mar 2008
Allen Cerisse E, Beldade Patrícia, Zwaan Bas J, Brakefield Paul M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: There is spectacular morphological diversity in nature but lineages typically display a limited range of phenotypes. Because developmental processes generate the phenotypic variation that fuels natural selection, they are a likely source of evolutionary biases, facilitating some chang...
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