Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprint
Developmentally cascading structures do not lose evolutionary potential, but compound developmental instability in rat molars
Natasha Vitek, Ella Saks, Amy Dong…·Susan Elizabeth Ozanne
The paper examines evolutionary potential and phenotypic plasticity in rat molars, finding that later-developing molars are equally or more evolvable than earlier ones, despite increased developmental instability.
DOI 10.1101/2025.01.13.632740