Macroevolutionary integration of phenotypes within and across ant worker castes

NR Friedman, B Lecroq Bennet, G Fischer… - Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
integration and modularity apply to sets of traits both within and among functionally and
phenotypically … On macroevolutionary timescales, patterns of integration and modularity within …

Morphological modularity and macroevolution: conceptual and empirical aspects

GJ Eble - 2005 - direct.mit.edu
… genotype-phenotype map, assessing the presence of modularity is a major goal. Further,
because modules may often have a nested arrangement, the issue of whether they are …

Phenotypic plasticity and modularity allow for the production of novel mosaic phenotypes in ants

S Londe, T Monnin, R Cornette, V Debat, BL Fisher… - EvoDevo, 2015 - Springer
phenotypes may be produced in ants because the latter exhibits a high degree of modularity
and phenotypic … to the same inducing factor, mosaic phenotypes may be generated by …

Modularity in development and why it matters to evo-devo

JA Bolker - American Zoologist, 2000 - academic.oup.com
modularity serves as the basis for identifying and studying individual elements of an organism's
genotype or phenotype… Explicit discussions of modularity have often focused primarily on …

Modularity in the skull and cranial vasculature of laboratory mice: implications for the evolution of complex phenotypes

HA Jamniczky, B Hallgrímsson - Evolution & development, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
… We contrast two hypotheses about integration and modularity of these different systems. The
first is that the CW and surrounding skeletal structures are essentially independent modules…

Cranial integration and modularity in chamois: The effects of subspecies and sex

S Milošević-Zlatanović, T Vukov, G Chovancová… - Journal of Mammalian …, 2023 - Springer
… Covariance structure patterning of the phenotype can provide important insights into the
evolution of forms. In this paper, we characterize the sex-specific phenotypic structure of cranial …

Evolutionary persistence of phenotypic integration: influence of developmental and functional relationships on complex trait evolution

RL Young, AV Badyaev - Evolution, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Integration and modularity in the evolution of sexual ornaments: an overlooked perspective.
… Inferring developmental modularity from morphological integration: analysis of individual …

Evolutionary integration and modularity in the diversity of the suckermouth armoured catfishes

CR Black, JW Armbruster - Royal Society Open Science, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… within a population (phenotypic integration), and coordination … modularity and integration
refer to the correlation in shape across evolutionary history [9,13–15]. Evolutionary modularity

Directional selection can drive the evolution of modularity in complex traits

D Melo, G Marroig - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Phenotypic matrices are much easier to measure, and G-matrix estimates … phenotypic
matrices include environmental noise, phenotypic module detection is a stricter test for modularity

Modularity: genes, development, and evolution

D Melo, A Porto, JM Cheverud… - Annual review of ecology …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
… How are modularity and integration relevant for phenotypic evolution? Having discussed
and characterized modularity and the possibility of its evolution, we now address its …