Conserved wing shape variation across biological scales unveils dialectical relationships between micro- and macroevolution

Abstract Variation enables short-term evolution (microevolution), but its role in long-term evolution (macroevolution) is debated. Here, we analyzed a dataset of Drosophila wing variation across six levels of biological organization to demonstrate that microevolutionary variation and macroevolutiona...

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Main Authors: Keita Saito, Masahito Tsuboi, Yuma Takahashi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-07-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-08376-2
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