Are you what you eat? A geometric morphometric analysis of gekkotan skull shape

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 677-707

  Daza, Juan D ^a   Herrera, Alexandra ^b   Thomas, Richard ^a   Claudio, Héctor J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Classification; Diet; Relative warps; Uniform and non uniform components

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; GEOMETRY; LIZARD; MORPHOMETRY; PHYLOGENY; SHAPE; SKULL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 67649875675     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2009.01242.x     Document Type: Article

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