Tooth shape differences analyzed by biometric and morphometric approaches: A case study on two morphologically very similar lacustrine cichlid species

Connective Tissue Research

Volumn 43, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 103-108

  Wautier, K ^a   Huysseune, A ^a   Verheyen, E ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cichlidae; Elliptic fourier analysis; Eretmodini; Parallel evolution; Tooth shape

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; FISH; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC REGULATION; LAKE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAXON; TOOTH; ANIMAL; CICHLID; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY;

CICHLIDAE; ERETMODUS CYANOSTICTUS;

ANIMALS; BIOMETRY; CICHLIDS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; TOOTH;

EID: 0035996568     PISSN: 03008207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03008200290000826     Document Type: Article

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