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Subject: fledgling grometric morphometrics in Serbia
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:48:56 -0400
From: Milos Blagojevic <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
There is one problem that i need to address to at the very onset of my
morphometrics career...I work with "Morphometrics in R" the most and
there are some things i just don`t get right. This is one of them:
- Is it meaningful to compute covariation structure among whole objects
(roe deer skulls) if there is only sexual structure present in the
sample? I have only one population and 39 male and 11 female skulls.
They are all approximately of the same age so i can`t think of a good
explanation of observed covariation, whether it be between different
landmarks, or between whole configurations. Can i test morphological
integration somehow? I can extend the sample to include more
populations, but it is very difficult to find specimens of all ages, and
even more harder to order them systematically. So it is mainly a
"horizontal" sample, and my question is about validity of
covariation/integration test for whole skull shapes.
Kind regards from Serbia,
Milos Blagojevic, PhD student and teaching assistant
Chordate morphology and systematics
Institute for biology and ecology
Faculty of science, Kragujevac, Serbia
email (Morphmet): [email protected]
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