• DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2007.10.061
Corpus ID: 4503181

Trends, Stasis, and Drift in the Evolution of Nematode Vulva Development

@article{Kiontke2007TrendsSA,
  title={Trends, Stasis, and Drift in the Evolution of Nematode Vulva Development},
  author={K. Kiontke and Antoine Barri{\`e}re and Irina Kolotuev and B. Podbilewicz and R. Sommer and D. Fitch and Marie-Anne F{\'e}lix},
  journal={Current Biology},
  year={2007},
  volume={17},
  pages={1925-1937}
}

K. Kiontke, Antoine Barrière, +4 authors Marie-Anne Félix

Published 2007

Biology, Medicine

Current Biology

BACKGROUND A surprising amount of developmental variation has been observed for otherwise highly conserved features, a phenomenon known as developmental system drift. Either stochastic processes (e.g., drift and absence of selection-independent constraints) or deterministic processes (e.g., selection or constraints) could be the predominate mechanism for the evolution of such variation. We tested whether evolutionary patterns of change were unbiased or biased, as predicted by the stochastic or… CONTINUE READING

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