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Causes of Discordance between Allometries at and above Species Level: An Example with Aquatic Beetles.
The American naturalist - 1 Aug 2015
Higginson Dawn M, Badyaev Alexander V, Segraves Kari A, Pitnick Scott
Abstract excerpt
Covariation among organismal traits is nearly universal, occurring both within and among species (static and evolutionary allometry, respectively). If conserved developmental processes produce similarity in static and evolutionary allometry, then when species differ in development, it should be expressed in discordance between allometries. Here, we investigate whether rapidly evolving developmental processes...
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