Dear Anneke, That's the problem. This exaggerated structure is only present in some of the species, and one of the goals is precisely to study the evolution of this structure.
best, Karla On Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 10:42:18 AM UTC-3, Anneke van Heteren wrote: > > Dear Karla Shikev, > > Have you tried digitising the tip of the pointy structure with a normal > Landmark, and semi-landmarks before and after it to digitise the rest of > the structure? This, of course, only works if the pointy structure is > visible in all your specimens. > > Best wishes, > > Anneke van Heteren > > Op za 16 mrt. 2019 om 16:46 schreef Karla Shikev <karla...@gmail.com > <javascript:>>: > >> >> Dear all, >> >> I've been trying to use sliding landmarks to represent the outlines of >> different species and then to use those data to project the shapes onto a >> morphospace (as in the Olsen et al. 2017). However, part of the outline >> involves a local pointy structure that is functionally important, but that >> simply disappears from the outlines of the morphospace. I tried to increase >> the number of landmarks, but the problem remains. Any help would be greatly >> appreciated. >> >> best, >> >> Karla >> >> -- >> MORPHMET may be accessed via its webpage at http://www.morphometrics.org >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MORPHMET" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to morphmet+u...@morphometrics.org <javascript:>. >> > -- MORPHMET may be accessed via its webpage at http://www.morphometrics.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MORPHMET" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to morphmet+unsubscr...@morphometrics.org.
