Title |
Modularity as a source of new morphological variation in the mandible of hybrid mice
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Published in |
BMC Ecology and Evolution, August 2012
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2148-12-141 |
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Authors |
Sabrina Renaud, Paul Alibert, Jean-Christophe Auffray |
Abstract |
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 generate new phenotypes, by combining into a new mosaic modules inherited from each parental groups and parts intermediate with respect to the parental groups. We tested this hypothesis by studying mandible size and shape in a set of first and second generation hybrids resulting from inbred wild-derived laboratory strains documenting two subspecies of house mice, Musmusculus domesticus and Musmusculus musculus. Phenotypic variation of the mandible was divided into nested partitions of developmental, evolutionary and functional modules. |
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