Article
Modularity, noise, and natural selection.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 May 2012
Marroig Gabriel, Melo Diogo A R, Garcia Guilherme
Abstract excerpt
Most biological systems are formed by component parts that are to some degree interrelated. Groups of parts that are more associated among themselves and are relatively autonomous from others are called modules. One of the consequences of modularity is that biological systems usually present an unequal distribution of the genetic variation among traits. Estimating the covariance matrix that describes these...
Topics
- Animals
- Biological Evolution
- Cebidae
- Genetic Variation
- Models, Genetic
- Sample Size
- Selection, Genetic
- Signal-To-Noise Ratio
- Skull