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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Associazione Teriologica Italiana
2000-06-01
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Series: | Hystrix, the Italian Journal of Mammalogy |
Online Access: | http://www.italian-journal-of-mammalogy.it/article/view/4136 |