Hormone-mediated suites: a standalone construct

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Comparative endocrinology

sets of traits linked because they respond to the same hormone, which can act as integrated adaptations or as constraints on independent evolution.

In comparative endocrinology, hormone-mediated suites refers to sets of traits linked because they respond to the same hormone, which can act as integrated adaptations or as constraints on independent evolution. This meaning comes from McGlothlin (2007) in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.[1]

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McGlothlin, J. W., & Ketterson, E. D. (2007). Hormone-mediated suites as adaptations and evolutionary constraints. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 363(1497), 1611-1620. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2007.0002

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