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Complex constraints on allometry revealed by artificial selection on the wing of Drosophila melanogaster.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 27 Oct 2015
Bolstad Geir H, Cassara Jason A, Márquez Eladio, Hansen Thomas F, van der Linde Kim, Houle David, Pélabon Christophe
Abstract excerpt
Precise exponential scaling with size is a fundamental aspect of phenotypic variation. These allometric power laws are often invariant across taxa and have long been hypothesized to reflect developmental constraints. Here we test this hypothesis by investigating the evolutionary potential of an allometric scaling relationship in drosophilid wing shape that is nearly invariant across 111 species separated by at...
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