Effects of Phylogeny on Structural Correlations of Vertebrate Eyes

Common ancestry prevents scientists from using traditional statistical tests in dimensional comparisons that span entire clades. Data in these cases are non-independent, so a variety of special statistical methods have been developed specifically for phylogenetic comparative analyses. A phylogenetic...

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Main Author: Jacobs, Amanda YL
Format: Others
Published: Scholarship @ Claremont 2014
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Online Access:http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/346
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1377&context=scripps_theses