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Subject: query
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 02:45:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gabriele Salvo <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Hi all, I'm new to the field and I would like to receive a few
suggestions. I have compiled a morphological character/species matrix
including only discrete characters (presence/absence and multistate),
which I would like to analyze in a phylogenetic framework. Since in my
group of interest there is a species complex, I would like to use the
relevant bits of the morphological matrix to visualize the species
complex in morphological space. I have in mind a PCA kind of plot
showing the different entities of the species complex with circles. Some
will overlap completely, others less. I would also like to find out
which are the most useful morphological characters for teasing the
entities of the species complex apart. I have read some articles on
traditional morphometrics and it appears that what I intend to do comes
closer to a Discriminant Analysis, but I learn that this is mainly
(only?) for continuous characters.
Do you have any suggestions (also regarding the software that I could use)?
Cheers
gabriele
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Gabriele Salvo
PhD Student
Institut für Systematische Botanik
Universität Zürich
Zollikerstrasse 107
CH-8008 Zürich
SWITZERLAND
e-mail: [email protected]
tel: 0041 (0)44 634 84 18
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