Fused traditional and geometric morphometrics demonstrate pinniped whisker diversity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Ginter, Carly C ^a   DeWitt, Thomas J ^a   Fish, Frank E ^b   Marshall, Christopher D ^a,c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT GALVESTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECOMPOSITION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GEOMETRY; HAIR ANALYSIS; HAIR FOLLICLE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; MECHANORECEPTOR; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; OTARIID; PHOCID; SEAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; VIBRISSA; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; HISTOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

HALICHOERUS; MAMMALIA; OTARIIDAE; PHOCIDAE; PINNIPEDIA;

ANIMALS; ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES; PINNIPEDIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84859222905     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034481     Document Type: Article

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