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Enzyme heterozygosity, metabolism, and developmental stability

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Developmental Instability: Its Origins and Evolutionary Implications

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Developmental homeostasis, measured as either fluctuating asymmetry or variance of morphological characters,increases with enzyme heterozygosity in many, but not all, natural populations. These results have been reported for Drosophila, monarch butterflies, honeybees, blue mussels, side-blotched lizards, killifish, salmonid fishes, guppies, Sonoran topminnows, herring, rufous-collared sparrows, house sparrows, brown hares, white-tailed deer, and humans. Because heterozygosity at a few loci can not predict heterozygosity of the entiry genome, these loci must be detecting localized zones that influence the developmental environment.

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Mitton, J.B. (1994). Enzyme heterozygosity, metabolism, and developmental stability. In: Markow, T.A. (eds) Developmental Instability: Its Origins and Evolutionary Implications. Contemporary Issues in Genetics and Evolution, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0830-0_6

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