Methods for studying morphological integration and modularity

A Goswami, PD Polly - The Paleontological Society Papers, 2010 - cambridge.org
… In this paper we review some ofthe many methods available to study phenotypic integration
and modularity, illustrating their similarities and differences with a 3D morphometic dataset …

Phenotypic integration and modularity drives skull shape divergence in the Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus) from the Commander Islands

A Martín-Serra, O Nanova… - Biology …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… However, studies addressing how morphological integration and modularity change for …
patterns of phenotypic integration and modularity in the skull of phenotypically and genetically …

The macroevolutionary consequences of phenotypic integration: from development to deep time

A Goswami, JB Smaers, C Soligo… - … Transactions of the …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Phenotypic integration and modularity have … trait integration can influence both the trajectory
and magnitude of response to selection. We further demonstrate that phenotypic integration

Evolutionary integration and modularity in the archosaur cranium

RN Felice, A Watanabe, AR Cuff… - Integrative and …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
… The tetrapod skull has been one of the most common structures used to studying
phenotypic modularity. Most analyses have focused on testing simple or single hypotheses of …

[PDF][PDF] Cranial integration and modularity: insights into evolution and development from morphometric data

CP Klingenberg - Hystrix, 2013 - iris.unimore.it
Morphological integration and modularity have become central concepts in evolutionary
biology and geometric morphometrics. This review summarizes the most frequently used …

A modular concept of phenotypic plasticity in plants

H De Kroon, H Huber, JF Stuefer… - New …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
integration of modules. The objective of this paper is to propose a new modular concept of
phenotypic … Throughout we will focus on morphological responses at the modular level, but …

Modularity and intra-floral integration in metameric organisms: plants are more than the sum of their parts

PK Diggle - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… How can phenotypic integration and modularity be … on patterns of floral integration and
modularity and explores the … in positional variation in patterns of morphological integration. …

[PDF][PDF] Phenotypic integration in plants.

CJ Murren - Plant species biology, 2002 - codebiology.org
… In summary, it is argued that our understanding of the evolution of phenotypic integration
will … to phenotype map, and consider how selection acts on complex functional phenotypes. …

What does modularity mean?

ML Zelditch, A Goswami - Evolution & Development, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… to evolvability (Wagner & Altenberg, 1996): “By modularity we mean a genotype–phenotype
map in which there are few pleiotropic effects among characters serving different functions.” …

[PDF][PDF] The macroevolution of phenotypic integration

GJ Eble - Phenotypic integration: studying the ecology and …, 2004 - Citeseer
… studies of phenotypic integration is to distill modular units of selection from the complex
patterns of trait interactions constituting the organism -- in other words, to identify local …