Local Insect Damage Reduces Fluctuating Asymmetry in Next-year’s Leaves of Downy Birch
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Fluctuating Asymmetry
Fluctuating asymmetry refers to small random deviations from perfect symmetry in bilaterally paired structures; it is thought to reflect an organism’s ability to cope with genetic and environmental stress during development and its utility as an indicator of such stresses is based on the assumption that perfect symmetry is an a priori expectation for the ideal state of bilateral structures. Flu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Insects
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2075-4450
DOI: 10.3390/insects9020056