Linking shape conspicuous asymmetry with shape covariation patterns and performance in the insect head and mandibles.

Abstract excerpt

Bilateral symmetry is widespread across animals, yet, among bilaterians, many cases of conspicuous asymmetries evolved. This means that bilaterally homologous structures on the left and right sides display divergent phenotypes. The evolution of such divergent phenotypes between otherwise similarly shaped structures can be thought to be favored by modularity, but this has rarely been studied in the context of...

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

• Share to Biological Evolution
• Share to Grasshoppers