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GENETIC ANALYSIS OF SIZE-SCALING PATTERNS IN THE MOUSE MANDIBLE
William R. Atchley 1, A. Alison Plummer 1, and Bruce Riska 1
1 Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
The relationship between multidimensional form of the adult mouse mandible and body size is examined from an ontogenetic perspective. The origin and ontogeny of phenotypic correlations are described in terms of genetic and environmental covariance patterns between adult skeletal morphology and growth in body weight. Different ontogenetic patterns are observed in the genetic correlations, and these can be related to the developmental as well as the functional aspects of mandibular form. The quantitative genetic aspects of craniomandibular growth and morphogenesis are explored, together with an examination of the impact of ontogenetic changes in the genetic variance-covariance structure on morphogenetic integration and evolution by selection.
Submitted on March 11, 1985Accepted on July 1, 1985
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