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A macroevolutionary common-garden experiment reveals differentially evolvable bone organization levels in slow arboreal mammals.
Communications biology - 28 Sept 2023
Alfieri Fabio, Botton-Divet Léo, Wölfer Jan, Nyakatura John A, Amson Eli
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Eco-morphological convergence, i.e., similar phenotypes evolved in ecologically convergent taxa, naturally reproduces a common-garden experiment since it allows researchers to keep ecological factors constant, studying intrinsic evolutionary drivers. The latter may result in differential evolvability that, among individual anatomical parts, causes mosaic evolution. Reconstructing the evolutionary morphology of...
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