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Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of zoological systematics and evolutionary research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.769
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1439-0469
pISSN - 0947-5745
DOI - 10.1111/jzs.12146
Subject(s) - crania , cover (algebra) , systematics , biology , morphometrics , information retrieval , genealogy , evolutionary biology , cartography , library science , zoology , computer science , anatomy , geography , taxonomy (biology) , history , mechanical engineering , engineering
Hundreds of analyses using Procrustes‐based geometric morphometrics on bilaterally symmetric structures have been performed by using landmarks on just one side. Using 10 samples of mammalian crania (N>500), Cardini shows that the simple reconstruction of the missing side, by mirror‐reflection of the available one, might lead to improved accuracy and better visualization, as exemplified on marmots using wireframes before and after the reconstruction of the ‘missing’ side. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, Volume 55, Issue 1, February 2017, Pages: 1–10, Andrea Cardini DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12144 Copyright of picture: © Cardini 2016