Sentences with phrase «developmental constraints»

Our symposium is focused on the problem of origin, mechanisms of action and evolutionary consequences of developmental constraints.

That's an important developmental constraint on reasoning, but it doesn't mean kids are fundamentally irrational or illogical.

We have also studied developmental constraints in dogs, i.e. the negative consequences (pleiotropic effects) associated with extreme artificial selection for size in dogs (Collaboration with Marc Nussbaumer of the Natural History Museum, Berne, Switzerland).

That's an important developmental constraint on reasoning, but it doesn't mean kids are fundamentally irrational or illogical.

This pattern could result from natural selection for specific allometries or from developmental constraints on patterns of differential growth.

Our results show that the short - term evolution of allometries is not limited by developmental constraints.

We performed artificial selection on the allometry between forewing area and body size in a butterfly to test for developmental constraints, and then used the resultant increased range of phenotypic variation to quantify natural selection on the scaling relationship.

Artificial selection readily changes the ratio of body size to wing size in butterflies, indicating that the relative sizes of body parts are shaped by selection, not developmental constraints.

The new study, Testing hypotheses of developmental constraints on mammalian brain partition evolution, using marsupials, is published in Scientific Reports (doi: 10.1038 / s41598 -017-02726-9) and also involves researchers from UQ's Centre for Advanced Imaging, the University of Melbourne, and CSIRO Health and Biosecurity Flagship.

The importance of developmental constraints.

A molecular switch between proliferation and differentiation, maintained by anti-cancer selection, imposes a developmental constraint on ontogenetic rates and morphological evolution.

We discuss the recent advances to address the question and characterize the developmental constraint in evolution, by integrating approaches from cell, and evolutionary biology, bioinformatics, and theoretical biophysics, and provide the future perspective in the quantitative evo - devo studies.