The heritability of fluctuating asymmetry and the genetic control of developmental stability.

doi:10.1098/rspb.1996.0125

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The heritability of fluctuating asymmetry and the genetic control of developmental stability.

Proceedings. Biological sciences - 22 Jul 1996

Whitlock M

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Fluctuating asymmetry (FA) is the unsigned difference between the left and right sides for some trait on an organism with no average difference between the sides. Because FA is assumed to reflect differences in development but not in genetic effects, it is often used as a measure of the developme...

Topics

Aging
Animals
Biological Evolution
Carnivora
Drosophila melanogaster
Female
Genetic Variation
Invertebrates
Male
Mathematics
Models, Genetic
Models, Statistical
Phenotype

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