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The effect of genetic and environmental variation on genital size in male Drosophila: canalized but developmentally unstable.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2011
Dreyer Austin P, Shingleton Alexander W
Abstract excerpt
The genitalia of most male arthropods scale hypoallometrically with body size, that is they are more or less the same size across large and small individuals in a population. Such scaling is expected to arise when genital traits show less variation than somatic traits in response to factors that generate size variation among individuals in a population. Nevertheless, there have been few studies directly examining...
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