Modularity as a source of new morphological variation in the mandible of hybrid mice

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Hybridization is often seen as a process dampening phenotypic differences accumulated between diverging evolutionary units. For a complex trait comprising several relatively independent modules, hybridization may however simply gener...

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Main Authors: Renaud Sabrina, Alibert Paul, Auffray Jean-Christophe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2012-08-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
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Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/12/141