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Constraint and developmental dissociation of phenotypic integration in a genetically accommodated trait.
Evolution & development - 1 Jan 2000
Suzuki Yuichiro, Nijhout H Frederik
Abstract excerpt
The genetic accommodation of novel adaptive traits may be accompanied by the evolution of correlated traits that constrain adaptive evolution. Very little is known about the removal of maladaptive correlated traits. In the present study, body size was found to have evolved as a correlated trait during the artificial selection for a polyphenism and a monophenism, and the developmental basis underlying this...
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