page_title: Developmental bias
section_title: Morphospace
hierarchical_section_title: Developmental bias / Distribution of phenotypic variation / Morphospace
caption_attribution_description: English: Multidimensional representation of species in the morphospace. Each axis corresponds to a trait, and dots correspond to organisms with particular trait values combinations. In this case, the axes represent the form of the fish species.
context_page_description: In evolutionary biology, developmental bias refers to the production against or towards certain ontogenetic trajectories which ultimately influence the direction and outcome of evolutionary change by affecting the rates, magnitudes, directions and limits of trait evolution. Historically, the term was synonymized with developmental constraint, however, the latter has been more recently interpreted as referring solely to the negative role of development in evolution.
context_section_description: The morphospace is a quantitative representation of phenotypes in a multidimensional space, where each dimension corresponds to a trait. The phenotype of each organism or species is then represented as a point in that space that summarizes the combination of values or states at each particular trait. This approach is used to study the evolution of realized phenotypes compared to those that are theoretically possible but inexistent.
caption: Multidimensional representation of species in the morphospace. Each axis corresponds to a trait, and dots correspond to organisms with particular trait values combinations. In this case, the axes represent the form of the fish species.
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