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SUBMITTER: Frankino WA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3198854 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20050201 5710
In animals, scaling relationships between appendages and body size exhibit high interspecific variation but low intraspecific variation. This pattern could result from natural selection for specific allometries or from developmental constraints on patterns of differential growth. We performed artificial selection on the allometry between forewing area and body size in a butterfly to test for developmental constraints, and then used the resultant increased range of phenotypic variation to quantif ...[more]