Morphometrics in Development and Evolution Export

@article{citeulike:2619413, abstract = {Morphometric approaches facilitate the analysis of quantitative variation in form, typically becoming most useful for the study of organisms that have completed morphogenesis and are at differing stages of growth. Recent conceptual and technical refinements in the characterization and comparison of forms have joined methodological innovations in molecular biology, embryology, and phylogeny reconstruction to advance the study of the evolution of development. Among the phenomena that have recently been examined morphometrically are developmental integration and heterochrony, discoveries that in turn raise deeper questions about the connections among disciplines and among levels of description: the relationship between morphometric variables and characters, between phenomenology and process, and the interplay (and evolutionary relevance) of genes and phenotypes. Morphometrics can continue to play a vital role in evolutionary studies of development as its results generate questions both for its practitioners and for other sorts of biologists to explore. 10.1093/icb/40.5.801}, author = {Roth, Louise V. and Mercer, John M.}, citeulike-article-id = {2619413}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icb/40.5.801}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://icb.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/40/5/801}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1093/icb/40.5.801}, journal = {Amer. Zool.}, month = {October}, number = {5}, pages = {801--810}, posted-at = {2008-04-01 11:48:41}, priority = {2}, title = {Morphometrics in Development and Evolution}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icb/40.5.801}, volume = {40}, year = {2000} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2619413 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2619413 N2 - Morphometric approaches facilitate the analysis of quantitative variation in form, typically becoming most useful for the study of organisms that have completed morphogenesis and are at differing stages of growth. Recent conceptual and technical refinements in the characterization and comparison of forms have joined methodological innovations in molecular biology, embryology, and phylogeny reconstruction to advance the study of the evolution of development. Among the phenomena that have recently been examined morphometrically are developmental integration and heterochrony, discoveries that in turn raise deeper questions about the connections among disciplines and among levels of description: the relationship between morphometric variables and characters, between phenomenology and process, and the interplay (and evolutionary relevance) of genes and phenotypes. Morphometrics can continue to play a vital role in evolutionary studies of development as its results generate questions both for its practitioners and for other sorts of biologists to explore. 10.1093/icb/40.5.801 IS - 5 JF - Amer. Zool. EP - 810 TI - Morphometrics in Development and Evolution VL - 40 SP - 801 AU - Roth, Louise AU - Mercer, John PY - 2000/10/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icb/40.5.801 ER -