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Developmental origins of normal and anomalous random right-left asymmetry: lateral inhibition versus developmental error in a threshold trait
Provedor de dados: 16
Autores: Palmer, A.R.
Dramatic examples of right-left asymmetry often inspire adaptive explanations, simply because it is hard to imagine how such forms could not be functionally significant. But are conspicuous morphological asymmetries necessarily adaptive? Surprisingly, in some species where direction of asymmetry is random, asymmetry in bilaterally paired traits may arise as a developmental error in a threshold trait. When cases of asymmetry are rare within a species, they are easily recognized as developmental errors. However, as asymmetrical individuals become more common, or if the asymmetry is in a signaling trait, the temptation to advance an adaptive explanation grows, particularly if the asymmetry is not clearly maladaptive. Several models of the ontogeny of...
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor
Palavras-chave: Acari; Adaptive significance; Crabs; Crustacea; Developmental models; Diptera; Flies; Hemiptera; Insecta; Lobsters; Mites; Morphological asymmetry; Polyphenism; Shrimp; Stochastic development; True bugs; 42.21.
Ano: 2012
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/419175