Allometric variation in the antlers of cervids: A comment on Lemaître et al.

Biology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Packard, Gary C ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERVIDAE; LEMA;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; DEER; HORN; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTLERS; BODY SIZE; DEER;

EID: 84930508567     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2014.0923     Document Type: Note

References (11)

1. Lemaître JF, Vanpé C, Plard F, Gaillard JM. 2014 The allometry between secondary sexual traits and body size is nonlinear among cervids. Biol. Lett. 10, 20130869. (doi:10.1098/rsbl. 2013.0869)
2. Zuur AF, Ieno EN, Walker NJ, Saveliev AA, Smith GM. 2009 Mixed effects models and extensions in ecology with R. New York, NY: Springer.
3. Strauss RE. 1993 The study of allometry since Huxley. In Problems of relative growth, new edition (ed. JS Huxley), pp. xlvii-xlxxv. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
4. Packard GC. 2013 Is logarithmic transformation necessary in allometry? Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 109, 476-486. (doi:10.1111/bij.12038)
5. Ritz C, Streibig JC. 2008 Nonlinear regression with R. New York, NY: Springer.
6. Bales GS. 1996 Heterochrony in brontothere horn evolution: Allometric interpretations and the effect of life history scaling. Paleobiology 22, 481-495.
7. Sartori AF, Ball AD. 2009 Morphology and postlarval development of the ligament of Thracia phaseolina (Bivalvia: Thraciidae), with a discussion of model choice in allometric studies. J. Mollusc. Stud. 75, 295-304. (doi:10.1093/mollus/eyp029)
8. Packard GC. 2012 Is non-loglinear allometry a statistical artifact? Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 107, 764-773. (doi:10.1111/bij.12396)
9. Gould SJ. 1966 Allometry and size in ontogeny and phylogeny. Biol. Rev. 41, 587-640. (doi:10.1111/j. 1469.185X.1966.tb01624.x)
10. Finney DJ. 1989 Was this in your statistics textbook? VI. Regression and covariance. Exp. Agric. 25, 291-311. (doi:10.1017/S0014479700014824)
11. Paine CET, Marthews TR, Vogt DR, Purves D, Rees M, Hector A, Turnbull LA. 2012 How to fit nonlinear plant growth models and calculate growth rates: An update for ecologists. Methods Ecol. Evol. 3, 245-256. (doi:10.1111/j.2041-210X.2011.00155.x)