The Evolution of Modularity in the Mammalian Skull I: Morphological Integration Patterns and Magnitudes

By Arthur Porto, F. B. Oliveira, L. T. Shirai, V. D. Conto, G. Marroig. Evolutionary biology, 2009

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Subfields: Genetics, Geometry and Topology, Paleontology

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In Genetics

1. C. Rolian
2. V. D. Conto
3. F. B. Oliveira
4. L. T. Shirai
5. Arthur Porto
6. P. D. Polly
7. A. Goswami
8. G. Marroig

In Geometry and Topology

1. C. Rolian
2. V. D. Conto
3. F. B. Oliveira
4. L. T. Shirai
5. Arthur Porto
6. P. D. Polly
7. A. Goswami
8. G. Marroig

In Paleontology

1. C. Rolian
2. V. D. Conto
3. F. B. Oliveira
4. L. T. Shirai
5. Arthur Porto
6. P. D. Polly
7. A. Goswami
8. G. Marroig

Citations in the corpus

• Constraints Evolve: Context Dependency of Gene Effects Allows Evolution of Pleiotropy (2015, background): “For example, studies of mammalian cranial morphology (Hallgrimsson et al. 2004, Porto et al. 2009, Sanger et al. 2013) and vertebrate fore- and hindlimbs (Kelly & Sears 2011, Young et al. 2010) have documented divergence in trait covariation.”
• The Evolution of Modularity in the Mammalian Skull II: Evolutionary Consequences (2009, methodology): “Therefore, all matrices used here and in the companion paper (including G-matrices) are pooled within-groups correlation or V/CV matrices properly controlled for these other sources of variation whenever appropriate (see Table 1 in Porto et al. 2009).”
• The macroevolutionary consequences of phenotypic integration: from development to deep time (2014, background): “An extensive review of these studies was published recently [58] and so will not be repeated here except to note that large-scale studies have found a relatively high degree of conservation of patterns of integration across therian mammal (marsupials and placentals) crania and mandibles [26,63].”
• Integration and Evolvability in Primate Hands and Feet (2009, background): “…space, more strongly integrated traits may be more evolvable, both in terms of the magnitude and direction of the evolutionary response, along particular directions of this space, notably those that coincide with the orientation of the leading eigenvectors of their VCV matrix (Porto et al. 2009).”