robustness
Debat V, Debelle A & Dworkin I 2009 Plasticity, canalization, and developmental stability of the Drosophila wing: joint effects of mutations and developmental temperature. Evolution 63:2864-2876.
- most of the recent discussion about canalization has concerned its genetic component
- because it theoretically allows for the build up—and thus the occasional release—of cryptic genetic variation, potentially altering the pace of morphological evolution
- it is possible to change environmental canalization with no effect on genetic canalization
- in contradiction with the hypothesis of genetic canalization evolving as a byproduct of environmental canalization
