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Stress, developmental stability and sexual selection
1997Sexual selection may give rise to increases in the general level of stress experienced by individuals, either because intense directional selection reduces the ability of individuals to control the stable development of their phenotype, or because extravagant secondary sexual characters on their own impose stress on their bearers.
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Identical twins and developmental stability
Animal Science, 19621. The stability with which dairy cattle develop in body size up to 2 years of age was studied in 60 pairs of uniformly treated identical twins, i.e. an assessment was made of the influence of season, genotype, mean size of twin pair, age and degree of maturity on the level of within-pair variability.2.
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Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis and Developmental Stability
1997The close association of spinal deformity with growth suggests that scoliosis may be a developmental response to perturbation of growth processes. Developmental criteria in 327 girls with late-onset idiopathic scoliosis were examined. Age at diagnosis correlated with apex (P=.002), Cobb angle (P=.006) and with age at menarche (P=.008).
Goldberg C.J. +3 more
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Developmental stability and mode of selection
1997Abstract Micro-evolutionary processes involve different genotypes producing phenotypes upon which selection can act. If phenotypes are non-randomly associated with fitness components, this will result in an evolutionary response to selection, provided the characters in question have an additive genetic basis, and that there are no ...
Anders Pape Møller, John P Swaddle
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Developmental Stability Is Related to Fitness
The American Naturalist, 1999Currently, there is an increasing interest in the use of various measures of developmental instability to understand a wide range of ecological and evolutionary problems, and also questions in fields such as human and veterinary medicine, conservation, and animal welfare (see reviews in Moller and Swaddle 1997; Thornhill and Moller 1997).
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Developmental Stability: its Significance for Scoliosis
1999Developmental homeostasis is the tendency of the internal environment of an organism to be maintained at a constant by means of self-regulating biological processes through growth systems. Developmental stability is the production of a phenotype through predetermined adaptations to a given environment and genetic pattern.
Dangerfield P H +4 more
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Developmental stability in geophilomorph centipedes
2000Measures of fluctuating asymmetry, the random and not inheritable deviations from perfect bilateral symmetry, are routinely used as indices of developmental stability. The almost homonomous trunk of geophilomorph centipedes presents another kind of symmetry: the series of segments are arranged according to a translational symmetry.
FUSCO, GIUSEPPE, MINELLI, ALESSANDRO
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Enzyme heterozygosity, metabolism, and developmental stability
Genetica, 1993Developmental homeostasis, measured as either fluctuating asymmetry or variance of morphological characters, increases with enzyme heterozygosity in many, but not all, natural populations. These results have been reported forDrosophila, monarch butterflies, honeybees, blue mussels, side-blotched lizards, killifish, salmonid fishes, guppies, Sonoran ...
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On the heritability of developmental stability
Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 1997Mo*ller and Thornhill (1997) assessed the heritability of developmental stabilityby a meta-analysis of all published (and some unpublished) heritability estimates offluctuating asymmetry in bilateral traits. From a limited number of these studiesthey also calculated the additive genetic coefficient of variation (CVA).
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