Reposted by Joel Pick
With fieldwork, I didn't get to advertise our (not so now) new paper on the quantitative genetics of growth in the 🦎 in @journal-evo.bsky.social:
dx.doi.org/10.1093/evol...
It's an exciting paper paper in which we disentangle what it means to treat the whole growth curve as a function-valued trait!
dx.doi.org
Quantitative genetics of lifetime growth curves in a lizard
Abstract. Body size is an iconic trait in quantitative genetics. For species with indeterminate growth however, growth curve, a function-valued trait, is t