Dear morphometricians, Just wanted to bring your attention to a paper that we published last spring in the journal Development Genes and Evolution that illustrates a new approach to the analysis of heritability of shape (multivariate trait). Chris Klingenberg made an announcement about the special issue on size and shape last spring. Calculating multivariate heritability has been a difficult problem to approach because it requires a multivariate linear mixed model. The approach illustrated in this paper is statistically rigorous and it may be of interest to the broader moprphometrics community.
Mark C. Belk, and G. Bruce Schaalje. 2016. Multivariate heritability of shape in June sucker (Chasmistes liorus) and Utah sucker (Catostomus ardens): shape as a functional trait for discriminating closely related species. Development Genes and Evolution 226:197-207. http://link.springer.com/journal/427/226/3/page/1 or http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00427-016-0547-2/fulltext.html Best, Mark Mark C. Belk, Professor of Biology Brigham Young University Editor, Western North American Naturalist 801-422-4154 -- 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.
