Directional asymmetry and the measurement of developmental instability

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• Publication year

  1998

• Venue

  Biological Journal of The Linnean Society

• Publication date

  1998-05-01

• Fields of study

  Biology

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  DOI 10.1111/J.1095-8312.1998.TB01530.X
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