Skeletal elements have a diverse range of shapes and sizes specialized to their various
roles including protecting internal organs, locomotion, feeding, hearing, and vocalization …

Studies on domestication are blooming, but the developmental bases for the generation of
domestication traits and breed diversity remain largely unexplored. Some phenotypic …

Phenotypic integration is a pervasive characteristic of organisms. Numerous analyses have
demonstrated that patterns of phenotypic integration are conserved across large clades, but …

We report a genome-wide association scan for facial features in∼ 6,000 Latin Americans.
We evaluated 14 traits on an ordinal scale and found significant association (P values< 5× …

The variation among domestic dog breeds offers a unique opportunity to study large-scale
diversification by microevolutionary mechanisms. We use geometric morphometrics to …

The field of morphometrics is developing quickly and recent advances allow for geometric
techniques to be applied easily to many zoological problems. This paper briefly introduces …

Background Although variation provides the raw material for natural selection and evolution,
few empirical data exist about the factors controlling morphological variation. Because …

To characterize the genetic basis of facial features in Latin Americans, we performed a
genome-wide association study (GWAS) of more than 6000 individuals using 59 landmark …

Copy Number Variations (CNVs) and Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) have been
the major focus of most large-scale comparative genomics studies to date. Here, we discuss …

A long-standing question in evolutionary and developmental biology concerns the relative
contribution of cis-regulatory and protein changes to developmental evolution. Central to this …