Morphometric analysis of six Gerbillus species (Rodentia, Gerbillinae) from Tunisia

Comptes Rendus - Biologies

Volumn 333, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 680-687

  Abiadh, Awatef ^a   Colangelo, Paolo ^b   Capanna, Ernesto ^b   Lamine Cheniti, Tahar ^a   Chetoui, M'Barek ^a  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Geometric morphometric; Gerbillus; Systematic; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DIVERGENCE; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GEOMETRY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOMETRY; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RODENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; CANONICAL VARIATES ANALYSIS; GERBIL; HABITAT SELECTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLESIOMORPHY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RODENT; SKULL; TUNISIA;

TUNISIA;

GERBILLINAE; GERBILLUS; GERBILLUS CAMPESTRIS; GERBILLUS GERBILLUS; GERBILLUS LATASTEI; GERBILLUS NANUS; GERBILLUS SIMONI; GERBILLUS TARABULI; RODENTIA;

EID: 77956392939     PISSN: 16310691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2010.07.003     Document Type: Article

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