
%0 Journal Article
%A Clarke, GM 
%A Brand, GW 
%A Whitten, MJ 
%T Fluctuating Asymmetry: A Technique for Measuring Developmental Stress Caused by Inbreeding
%J Australian Journal of Biological Sciences
%D 1986/06/01
%V 39
%N 2
%P 145-154
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/BI9860145
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/BI9860145 
%X Fluctuating asymmetry has sometimes been employed to indicate disruption of developmental homeostasis. Such disruption is thought to be a result of increased developmental stress. In this study we examine the relationship between fluctuating asymmetry and inbreeding level in two differing breeding systems: the marine harpacticoid copepod Tisbe holothuriae, a typically outbreeding diploid, and the common honeybee Apis melli/era, which is haplo-diploid. Inbreeding has previously been shown to constitute a developmental stress in populations of T. holothuriae, but the same is yet to be conclusively shown in A. melli/era. 
