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On the origins of novelty and diversity in development and evolution: a case study on beetle horns.
Cold Spring Harbor symposia on quantitative biology - 1 Jan 2009
Moczek A P
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The origin of novel features continues to represent a major frontier in evolutionary biology. What are the genetic, developmental, and ecological processes that mediate not just the modification of preexisting traits, but the origin of novel traits that lack obvious homology with other structures? In this chapter, I highlight a class of traits and organisms that are emerging as new models for exploring the...
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