In evolutionary developmental biology, heterochrony is any genetically controlled difference in the timing, rate, or duration of a developmental process...

paedomorphosis (changing towards forms typical of children), a type of heterochrony. It is the retention in adults of traits previously seen only in the...

ancestor”. Heterochrony can lead to a modification in shape, size and/or behavior of an organism through a variety of different ways. With heterochrony being...

1016/j.anbehav.2005.04.022. S2CID 39848913. Wakahara, Masami (1996). "Heterochrony and Neotenic Salamanders: Possible Clues for Understanding the Animal...

both have seven cervical vertebrae. The giraffe's neck is elongated by heterochrony, extension of the time for the embryonic development of these bones....

spatial arrangement of an animal's embryonic development, complementary to heterochrony, a change to the rate or timing of a development process. It was first...

the following decades it was influential in stimulating research into heterochrony (changes in the timing of embryonic development), which had been neglected...

Hox genes 7, 8, and 9 correspond in these groups but are shifted (by heterochrony) by up to three segments. Segments with maxillipeds have Hox gene 7....

thought and a reduction of physical movements in an individual A form of heterochrony, able to cause effects such as neoteny, retention by adults of traits...

mid-Cretaceous marine arthropods and the evolution of novel forms via heterochrony". Science Advances. 5 (4): eaav3875. Bibcode:2019SciA....5.3875L. doi:10...