Biology Clearly Needs Morphometrics. Does Morphometrics Need Biology?

Biological Theory

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 84-97

  Oxnard, Charles ^a   O’Higgins, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

coordinate data; cusps and tears; elastic and nonelastic deformations; geometric morphometrics; landmarks; semi landmarks; sliding landmarks; splining methods; transformation grids

Indexed keywords

EID: 85131834257     PISSN: 15555542     EISSN: 15555550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/biot.2009.4.1.84     Document Type: Article

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