What is it about?
This is a review paper that includes an explanation of how crossveins are made during development in Drosophila, as well as a discussion of how genetic assimilation may be involved in the evolution of these phenotypes.
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Why is it important?
This paper is important because it links modern approaches to developmental genetics to historical approaches to the study of the evolution of phenotype by experiments in genetic assimilation in the context of evolutionary developmental biology.
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This was an invited paper, after I made a presentation at the annual meeting of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland at Royal Holloway College in the UK in 2001.
Dr Jeffrey Marcus
Jeffrey Marcus
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This page is a summary of: The development and evolution of crossveins in insect wings, Journal of Anatomy, August 2001, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1017/s0021878201008226.
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