Response to Packard: Make sure we do not throw out the biological baby with the statistical bath water when performing allometric analyses

Biology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Lemaitre J F ^a,b,c   Vanpe C ^a,b,c   Plard, F ^d   Pelabon C ^e   Gaillard, J M ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE DE BIOMÉTRIE ET BIOLOGIE EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

ANIMALS; ANTLERS; BODY SIZE; DEER;

EID: 84930509621     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2015.0144     Document Type: Note

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