Phylogenetic analysis of skull shape evolution in marmotine squirrels using landmarks and thin-plate splines

<strong>Abstract</strong> Several studies have shown that the recently developed techniques of geometric morphometrics are extremely powerful descriptive tools. And yet, one potential use of the resulting descriptions, phylogenetic analysis, has generally been neglected....

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Main Authors: Donald Swiderski, Miriam Zelditch, W. Fink
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associazione Teriologica Italiana 2000-06-01
Series:Hystrix, the Italian Journal of Mammalogy
Online Access:http://www.italian-journal-of-mammalogy.it/article/view/4136