Measuring and comparing evolvability and constraint in multivariate characters

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Journal of Evolutionary Biology

• Publication date

  2008-09-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2008.01573.xPMID 18662244
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