Size, shape, and form: concepts of allometry in geometric morphometrics

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 226, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 113-137

  Klingenberg, Christian Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allometry; Centroid size; Conformation; Form; Geometric morphometrics; Multivariate regression; Principal component analysis; Procrustes superimposition; Shape; Size correction

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; CONFORMATION; FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY; GENOTYPE; GEOMETRY; GROWTH CURVE; GROWTH RATE; MORPHOMETRICS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANATOMY; ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANATOMY; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84962146885     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: 1432041X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-016-0539-2     Document Type: Review

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