Does the skull carry a phylogenetic signal? Evolution and modularity in the guenons

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 813-834

  Cardini, Andrea ^a,b   Elton, Sarah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cercopithecini; Geometric morphometrics; Morphological evolution; Reliability and reproducibility; Skull modules

Indexed keywords

CRANIUM; DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; PHYLOGENETICS; PRIMATE; SIGNAL; SKULL; SPECIES COMPLEX; TOPOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; CERCOPITHECINI; PRIMATES;

EID: 40749104643     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01011.x     Document Type: Article

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