Advances in Morphometrics

• Overview of the New, or Geometric Morphometrics.- Overview of the New, or Geometric Morphometrics.- Theory and Methods.- An Idiosyncratic History of Early Morphometrics.- Multivariate Allometry.- to Data Acquisition.- Three-Dimensional Data Capture and Visualization.- Two-Dimensional Imaging.- Imagina.- An Image-Capture and Data-Collection System for Morphometric Analysis.- Converting Truss Interlandmark Distances to Cartesian Coordinates.- to Landmark Methods.- Morphometric Spaces, Shape Components and the Effects of Linear Transformations.- Combining the Tools of Geometric Morphometrics.- Standard Formula for the Uniform Shape Component in Landmark Data.- Affine Transformations as a Model of Virtual Form Change for Generating Morphospaces.- Three-Dimensional Generalized Resistant Fitting and the Comparison of Least-Squares and Resistant-Fit Residuals.- Dimension Reduction and Selection of Landmarks.- to Outlines.- Eigenshape Analysis of Left Ventricular Outlines from Contrast Ventriculograms.- Chi-Square Test of Biological Space Curve Affinities.- Spline Curves and Surfaces for Data Modeling.- Edgels and Tangent Planes in Image Warping.- Comparing Shapes of Organisms.- An Introduction to Geometric Morphometrics and Intraspecific Variation.- Fluctuating Asymmetry in Mus musculus Subspecific Hybridization.- Wing Venation Variability in Monarthropalpus buxi (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae) and the Quaternary Coevolution of Box (Buxus sempervirens L.) and Its Midge.- Size and Shape Variation in the Mandible of the Fossorial Rodent Spalax ehrenbergi.- Principal Components of Body Shape Variation within an Endemic Radiation of Threespine Stickleback.- A Landmark-Based Morphometrics Approach to the Systematics of Crocidurinae.- Three-Dimensional Landmark Techniques for the Recognition of Reef Coral Species.- to Comparison of Similar Objects Whose Group Identity is Known.- Identification of House Mice, Mus musculus, and Mound-Building Mice, M. spicilegus, Based on Distance and Landmark Data.- Correspondence between Interlandmark Distances and Caliper Measurements.- Some Applications of Geometric Morphometrics to Ostracoda.- Shape Changes during the Growth of the Sea Bass, Dicentrarchus labrax (Teleostea: Perciformes), in Relation to Different Rearing Conditions.- Sexual Dimorphism in the Craniofacial Skeleton of Modern Humans.- Sexual Dimorphism in Medieval Human Crania Studied by Three-Dimensional Thin-Plate Spline Analysis.- A Morphometric Model and Landmark Analysis of Acheulian Hand Axes from Northern Israel.- to Comparisons among Taxa at the Level of Species, Genus and Family.- The Evolution and Growth of the Hominid Pelvis.- Stephanodonty in Fossil Murids.- Comparative Landmark Analysis of Various Oxyuridae Parasites of Primates and Rodents.- Morphometric Pattern and Feeding Mode in Emperor Fishes (Lethrinidae, Perciformes).- Landmark-Based Size and Shape Analysis in Systematics of the Plecotine Bats.- Morphometric Analysis of Microscopic Hooks of Taeniid Tapeworms (Cestoda, Taeniidae).- A Taxonomic Comparison of Morphometric Methods.- Can Partial Warp Scores Be Used as Cladistic Characters?.

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