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The evolution of phenotypic correlations and "developmental memory".
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Apr 2014
Watson Richard A, Wagner Günter P, Pavlicev Mihaela, Weinreich Daniel M, Mills Rob
Abstract excerpt
Development introduces structured correlations among traits that may constrain or bias the distribution of phenotypes produced. Moreover, when suitable heritable variation exists, natural selection may alter such constraints and correlations, affecting the phenotypic variation available to subsequent selection. However, exactly how the distribution of phenotypes produced by complex developmental systems can be...
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