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Extending the Concept of Diversity Partitioning to Characterize Phenotypic Complexity.
The American naturalist - 1 Sept 2015
Marion Zachary H, Fordyce James A, Fitzpatrick Benjamin M
Abstract excerpt
Most components of an organism's phenotype can be viewed as the expression of multiple traits. Many of these traits operate as complexes, where multiple subsidiary parts function and evolve together. As trait complexity increases, so does the challenge of describing complexity in intuitive, biologically meaningful ways. Traditional multivariate analyses ignore the phenomenon of individual complexity and provide...
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