Article
The evolvability of growth form in a clonal seaweed.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Dec 2009
Monro Keyne, Poore Alistair G B
Abstract excerpt
Although modular construction is considered the key to adaptive growth or growth-form plasticity in sessile taxa (e.g., plants, seaweeds and colonial invertebrates), the serial expression of genes in morphogenesis may compromise its evolutionary potential if growth forms emerge as integrated wholes from module iteration. To explore the evolvability of growth form in the red seaweed, Asparagopsis armata, we...
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