How is developmental stability sustained in the face of genetic variation?

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The number and arrangement of scutellar bristles on the thorax of Drosophila melanogaster is largely invariant in wild-type stocks. This character therefore appears to be buffered against changes in phenotype, and has previously been described as a canalized character. Mutations that do alter this phenotype increase the variability in bristle number and can reveal otherwise cryptic genetic differences at other...

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