## Abstract Organisms are inherently modular, yet modules also evolve in response to selection for functional integration or functional specialization of traits. For serially repeated homologous traits, there is a clear expectation that selection on the function of individual traits will reduce the
Phenotypic Integration: Studying the Ecology and Evolution of Complex Phenotypes
β Scribed by Alessandro Minelli
- Book ID
- 109046865
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 34 KB
- Volume
- 86
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0001-7272
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