There has been a dispute among morphometricians (Fink and Zelditch, 1995; Zelditch, Fink, and Swiderski, 1995; Adams and Rosenberg, 1998; Rohlf, 1998; Swiderski, Zelditch, and Fink, 1998; Zelditch, Fink, Swiderski, and Ludrigan, 1998) on the possibility of using morphometric data, expressed as shape variables (particularly partial warps) extracted by geometric morphometrics methods, in phylogen...

Taxonomy relies greatly on morphology to discriminate groups. Computerized geometric morphometric methods for quantitative shape analysis measure, test and visualize differences in form in a highly effective, reproducible, accurate and statistically powerful way. Plant leaves are commonly used in taxonomic analyses and are particularly suitable to landmark based geometric morphometrics. However...

predatory birds feed mainly on small mammals. they usually swallow their prey and after digesting, the indigestible fur, bones and teeth are regurgitated as compact pellets. the investigation of pellet is an extremely valuable tool for mammalogists. in this study 351 pellets have been collected from the localities including north of khorasan, zanjan, yazd, chahar mahal va bakhtiyari and mazanda...

the brush-tailed mice of the genus calomyscus are distributed in the mountains of central asia and the middle east. the genus calomyscus represents five nominate species from iran (c. bailwardi, c. grandis, c. hotsoni, c. urartensis and c. elburzensis). in total 64 specimens from four species of calomyscus were studied for morphometric analyses the morphological differences among 10 populations...

wood mice of the genus apodemus are widespread in temperate areas of the palaearctic region. dental shape variation and morphological differences among three species of apodemus (a. witherbyi, a. hyrcanicus, a. uralensis) were investigated using outline-based geometric morphometrics of the second upper molar (m2/) and a morphological study of 92 museum specimens belonging to five populations of...