So, the analysis of differentially expressed genes can elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying the morphological diversity and provide a better understanding of the relationship between gene expression patterns and the resultant morphologies.
Based on the extensive knowledge of BMP signaling in Drosophila melanogaster, the morphological diversity of extraembryonic tissues in different fly species provides a comparative system to address this question.
Furthermore, extracting and comparing distinctive deformation characteristics, i.e. morphogenetic hot spots, in homologs among different species should provide quantitative guideposts for discussing morphological diversity and evolution between species.
We conclude that DNA barcoding will enable species delimitation, linking a greater range of the morphological diversity in ants (castes and sex), and further will provide a set of molecular characters that improve species delimitation and identification while making these hypotheses transparent and reproducible.
Recent advances in the quantitative analysis of anatomical variation, called geometric morphometric methods, have the potential to provide more powerful and complete descriptions of morphological diversity in a target population than the traditional anthropometric measurements upon which current respirator standards are based.
Our data provide examples of mutations that are associated with morphological diversity: in one case, a premature stop codon, and in a second, a large deletion of both regulatory and exonic DNA.
Our eigenspace-based approach provides intuitive physical pictures and quantitative discussions regarding the morphological diversity of nanostructured devices while unifying measurement stability, which is one of the most important concerns regarding security applications.
Elucidating the relationship between microdomain evolution and functional divergence would provide insights on how genetic and cellular complexity contributes to morphological diversity.
To provide an independent test of gradient flattening and loss of morphological diversity, we measured museum specimens of A. virens from the late 1800's and early 1900's, before large-scale deforestation of the region following World War II [32].
Dairy cattle, as a domestic species allow the testing of a good sample size and provide a large variety of test stimuli due to the morphological diversity of breeds.
