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Evolution of developmental bias explains divergent patterns of phenotypic evolution in two nematode clades.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 26 Aug 2025
Picao-Osorio Joao, Bouleau Charlotte, Gonzalez de la Rosa Pablo M, Stevens Lewis, Fekonja Nina, Blaxter Mark, Braendle Christian, Félix Marie-Anne
Abstract excerpt
Rates of phenotypic evolution vary across traits, and these evolutionary patterns themselves evolve. Understanding how development contributes to such patterns remains a challenge because it requires large-scale measurement of phenotypic variation resulting from random mutations across multiple species. Using the experimentally tractable system of nematode vulval development, we quantified the evolution and...
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