HETEROZYGOSITY AND DEVELOPMENTAL STABILITY: ANOTHER LOOK
EvolutionPublished 1 March 1979Open access
Michael E. Soulé
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The criterion of fitness employed in this study is relative symmetry of bilateral morphological traits, and it is demonstrated that individuals within populations do not differ significantly among themselves in FA when asymmetry is averaged over several traits.
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Journal Article HETEROZYGOSITY AND DEVELOPMENTAL STABILITY: ANOTHER LOOK Get access Michael E. Soulé Michael E. Soulé Department of Biology University of California San Diego, La Jolla California 92093 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Evolution, Volume 33, Issue 1Part2, 1 March 1979, Pages 396–401, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.1979.tb04693.x Published: 01 March 1979 Article history Received: 19 December 1977 Revision received: 14 July 1978 Published: 01 March 1979
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