A new application of morphometrics in a study of the variation in uncinal shape present within the Terebellidae (Polychaeta): A reevaluation from digital images

Cahiers de Biologie Marine

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 229-240

  Garraffoni, André Rinaldo Senna ^a   Camargo, Maurício de Garcia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Coding; Multivariate analysis; Neurochaetae; Terebelliformia

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DIGITAL IMAGE; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLYCHAETE;

POLYCHAETA; TEREBELLIDAE;

EID: 35248879141     PISSN: 00079723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Ben Eliahu M.N. 1987. An approach to Nereidid morphometry. Biological Society of Washington Bulletin, 7: 169-173.
2. Becerra J.M & Valdecasas A.G. 2004. Landmark superimposition for taxonomic identification. Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society, 81: 267-274.
3. Bookstein F.L. 1991. Morphometric tools for landmark data. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 435 pp.
4. Brown S., Rouse G.W., Hutchings P.A. & Colgan D. 1999. Assessing the usefulness of histone H3, U2 snTNA and 28SrDNA in analysis of polychaete relationships. Australian Journal of Zoology, 47: 499-516.
5. Carvalho, A.P.L.F. 2005. Redes neurais artificiais. (http://www.icmc.usp.br/~andre/research/neural/desenv.htm).
6. Chimimba C.T., Dippenhaar N.J. & Robinson T.J. 1999. Morphometric and morphological delineation of southern African species of Aethomys (Rodentia: Muridae). Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society, 67: 510-527.
7. Chui Y.W., Chen H.C., Lee S.C. & Chen C.A. 2002. Morphometric analysis of shell and operculum variations in the viviparid snail Chipangopaludina chinensis (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in Taiwan. Zoological Studies, 41: 321-331.
8. Clarke K.D. & Warwick R.M. 1994. Change in marine communities: an approach to statistical analysis and interpretation. Plymouth: Plymouth Marine Laboratory, 144 pp.
9. Colgan D., Hutchings P.A. & S. Brown 2001. Phylogenetic relationships within the Terebellomorpha. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 81: 765-773.
10. Costa L.F., Reis S.F., Arantes R.A.T., Alves A.C.R & Mutinari G. 2004. Biological shape analysis by digital curvature. Pattern Recognition, 37: 515-524.
11. Costa-Paiva E.M. & Paiva P.C. 2007. A morphometric analysis of Euncie cuvier (Annelida, Polychaeta) species. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia, 24: 353-358.
12. David B. & Laurin B. 1998. Geometric morphometrics approaches to biodiversity. Océanis, 24: 287-303.
13. Dedecker A.P., Goethals PJ,.M., Gabriels W. & Pauw N. 2004. Optimization of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model design for prediction of Macroinvertebrates in the Zwalm river basin (Flanders, Belgium). Ecological Models, 174: 161-173.
14. Dobigny G., Aniskin Y. & Volobouev V. 2002. Explosive chromosomal evolution and speciation in the gerbil genus Taterillus (Rodentia, Gerbillinae): A case of two new cryptic species. Cytogenet. Genome Research, 96:117-124.
15. Fauchald K. 1991. A morphometric study of eunicid polychaetes from Belize, Western Caribbean Sea. Ophelia, 5: 47-53.
16. Garraffoni A.R.S. & Lana P.C. 2004. Cladistic analysis of the subfamily Trichobranchinae (Polychaeta, Terebellidae). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 87: 973-983.
17. Garraffoni A.R.S. & Camargo M.G. 2006. First application of morphometrics in a study of variations in uncinial shape present within the Terebellidae (Polychaeta). Zoological Studies, 45: 75-80.
18. Glasby C.J., Hutchings P.A. & Hall K. 2004. Assessment of monophy and taxon affinities within the polychaete clade Terebelliformia (Terebellidae). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 84: 961-971.
19. Glasby C.J. & Glasby T.M. 2006. Two types of uncini in Polycirrus (Polychaeta: Terebellidae: Polycirrinae) revealed using geometric morphometrics. Journal of Natural History, 40: 237-253.
20. Guerrero J.A., Luna E. & Sánchez-Hernández C. 2003. Morphometrics in the quantification of character state identity for the assessment of primary homology: an analysis of character variation of the genus Artibeus (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae). Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society, 80: 45-55.
21. Jordaens K.S., Van Dongen P., Van Riel S., Geenen R., Verhagen T. & Backeljau T. 2002. Multivariate morphometrics of soft body parts in terrestrial slugs: comparison between two datasets, error assessment and taxonomic implications. Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society, 75: 533-542.
22. Kligenberg C.P. 2002. Morphometrics and the role of the phenotype in studies of the evolution of developmental mechanisms. Gene, 287: 3-10.
23. MacLeod N. 2001. Landmarks, localization, and the use of morphometrics in phylogenetic analysis. Fossils, phylogeny, and form: an analytical approach. (G. Edgecombe, J. Adrain, B. Lieberman eds.), pp. 197-233. New York, Kluwer Academic/Plenum.
24. Maltagliati F., Camilli L., Lardicci C. & Castelli A. 2001. Evidence for morphological and genetic divergence in Perinereis cultrifera (Polychaeta: Nereididae) from two habitat types at Elba Island. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 81: 411-414.
25. Medeiros L.F. 2003. Redes Neurais em Delphi. Florianópolis, Visual Books Editora, 115pp.
26. Monteiro L.R. & Reis S.F. 1999. Princípios de morfometria geométrica. Ribeirão Preto, Holos Editora, 188pp.
27. Monteiro L.R., Diniz-Filho A.F., Reis S.F. & Araújo E.D. 2002. Geometric estimates of hereditability in biological shape. Evolution, 56: 563572.
28. Morgan A., Boddy L., Mordeu. E.M. & Morris C.W. 1998. Evaluation of artificial neural networks for fungal identification, employing morphometric data from spores of Pestalotiopsis species. Mycology Research, 102: 975-984.
29. Olden J.D. 2000. An artificial network approach for studing phytoplankton succession. Hydrobiologia, 436: 131-143.
30. Olden, J.D. & Jackson D.A. 2002. A comparison of statistical approaches for modelling fish species distributions. Freshwater Biology, 47: 1976-1995.
31. Orrhage L. & Sundberg P. 1990. Multivariate analysis of morphometric differentiation within the Laonice cirrata-group, (Polychaeta: Spionidae). Zoologica Scripta, 19: 173-178.
32. Reis S.F. 1988. Morfometria e estatística multivariada em biologia evolutiva. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia, 5: 571-580.
33. Rolf F.J. & Marcus L.F. 1993. A revolution in morphometrics. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 8: 129-132.
34. Roth V.L. & Mercer J.M. 2000. Morphometrics in development and evolution. American Zoologist, 40: 801-810.
35. Rumelhart D., Hinton G. & Williams R. 1986. Learning internal representations by back-propagating errors. Nature, 323: 533-536.
36. Tatibana C.Y. & Kaetsu D.Y. 2005. Una introdução a rede neural (http://www.din.uem.br/ia/neurais).
37. Weeks P.J.D., Gauld I.D., Gaston K.J. & O'Neill M.A. 1997. Automating the identification of insects: a new solution to an old problem. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 87: 203-211.