作者: Marcela Randau , Andrew R. Cuff , John R. Hutchinson , Stephanie E. Pierce , Anjali Goswami
DOI: 10.1007/S13127-016-0304-4
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摘要: Recent advances in geometric morphometrics provide improved techniques for extraction of biological information from shape and have greatly contributed to the study of ecomorphology and morphological evolution. However, the vertebral column remains an under-studied structure due in part to a concentration on skull and limb research, but most importantly because of the difficulties in analysing the shape of a structure composed of multiple articulating discrete units (ie vertebrae). Here, we have applied a variety of …