Morphometric analysis revealed three distincall other emballonurids. Phylogenetic studies also tive groups among the genera of emballonurids. separated Taphozous-Saccolaimus as distinctive Taphozous-Saccolaimus is a group distinctive in but included diclidurids among other New World size and shape, particularly cranially. Diclidurids species. Compared with molossids, emballonurids are distincti...

There has been a startling change over the last decade in the intellectual context of morphometrics. In the 1990's, this field, which has not altered its focus upon the quantitative analysis of biomedical shape variation and shape change, was principally centered around concerns of medical image analysis; but now it is driven mainly by the demands of researchers in human variability, physical a...

Geometric morphometrics (GM) has increasingly become an important tool in assessing and studying shape variation in a wide variety of taxa. While the GM toolkit has unparalleled power to quantify shape, its use in studies of functional morphology have been questioned. Here, we assess the state of the field of GM and provide an overview of the techniques available to assess shape, including aspe...

This study aims to investigate orchid seed variation between some representatives of Neottieae, C. rubra, L. abortivum, Neottia nidus-avis, and N. (Listera) ovata, naturally distributed in our country by using geometric morphometric analyses based on 2-dimensional landmarks. For this purpose, a total 95 specimens were evaluated. The results ANOVA, PCA, discriminant showed significant shape size...

Small Island Nations, often comprised of Atolls, are at considerable risk climate change impacts from sea-level rise to coral acidification increasing cyclone intensity; understanding how they will in the coming century is vital for mitigation and resiliency. However, morphology atolls not well quantified or summarized. In this work, we calculate modern atoll morphometrics on a global scale inc...

The combination of long established techniques in morphometrics with novel shape modeling approaches in geometry processing has opened new ways of visualizations of shape variability in different application areas like biology, medicine, epidemiology and agriculture. For the first time highly resolved 3D representations became accessible for statistical analysis as well as visualizations. In or...

Increasing skeletal evidence from the U.S.A., Mexico, Colombia, and Brazil strongly suggests that the first settlers in the Americas had a cranial morphology distinct from that displayed by most late and modern Native Americans. The Paleoamerican morphological pattern is more generalized and can be seen today among Africans, Australians, and Melanesians. Here, we present the results of a compar...

A population of Xiphinema insigne with several males was found on the campus of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in November 1998 in the rhizosphere of Yulan Magnolia. Morphometrics of nine males and 25 females of this population are given herein. No sperm were found in the genital tracts of 118 females that were examined. This agrees with all other observations reported for this species e...