Developmental integration and the evolution of pleiotropy

JM Cheverud - American Zoologist, 1996 - academic.oup.com
The different forms of morphological integration, developmental, functional, genetic, and
evolutionary are defined and their theoretical relationships explored. Quantitative genetic …

Perspective metazoan complexity and evolution: is there a trend?

DW McShea - Evolution, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
The notion that complexity increases in evolution is widely accepted, but the best‐known
evidence is highly impressionistic. Here I propose a scheme for understanding complexity …

Integration of craniofacial structures during development in mammals

KK Smith - American Zoologist, 1996 - academic.oup.com
The integration of craniofacial elements during development in mammals is studiedin a
phylogenetic approach. Developmental series of four metatherian (marsupial) and five …

Individual variation of ontogenies: a longitudinal study of growth and timing

CP Klingenberg - Evolution, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
This study of growth and developmental time in the water strider Limnoporus canaliculatus
(Heteroptera: Gerridae) is based on longitudinal data from specimens reared individually in …

Ontogeny and individual variation: analysis of patterned covariance matrices with common principal components

CP Klingenberg, BE Neuenschwander… - Systematic …, 1996 - academic.oup.com
Morphometric data from longitudinal growth studies with multiple measurements made in
several growth stages on the same specimens confront researchers with difficult statistical …