Advances in Morphometrics

This volume is based on the NATO Advanced Study Institute, "Advances in Mor­ phometries" held in 11 Ciocco, Tuscany, Italy from July 18-30, 1993, and directed by Leslie F. Marcus. The "Advances in Morphometries" ASI was advertised in Nature and a number of professional journals. Announcements were sent to relevant institutions and departments throughout the world. Because NATO required that the majority of attendees be from NATO countries, the 71 persons attending represented nine NATO countries, four eastern European countries, now recognized as equal partners for AS Is, and a few participants from non-NATO countries. Participants were all active scholars in different disciplines within biology, as well as computer science, statistics, geology and paleontology. Their experience ranged from that of graduate students to senior faculty, as well as one emeritus scholar. A complete list of the those attending and their addresses, phone and FAX numbers and, where available, e-mail addresses is given in the participants list. All the local arrangements were made by Marco Corti and Anna Loy of the University of Rome "Ia Sapienza. " They made the initial contact with the II Ciocco conference center and then arranged for computer and Xerox rentals, design of logos, organization of posters, and publication of poster abstracts.

Table of Contents:
Overview of the New, or Geometric Morphometrics.- Overview of the New, or Geometric Morphometrics.- Theory and Methods.- An Idiosyncratic History of Early Morphometrics.- Multivariate Allometry.- to Data Acquisition.- Three-Dimensional Data Capture and Visualization.- Two-Dimensional Imaging.- Imagina.- An Image-Capture and Data-Collection System for Morphometric Analysis.- Converting Truss Interlandmark Distances to Cartesian Coordinates.- to Landmark Methods.- Morphometric Spaces, Shape Components and the Effects of Linear Transformations.- Combining the Tools of Geometric Morphometrics.- Standard Formula for the Uniform Shape Component in Landmark Data.- Affine Transformations as a Model of Virtual Form Change for Generating Morphospaces.- Three-Dimensional Generalized Resistant Fitting and the Comparison of Least-Squares and Resistant-Fit Residuals.- Dimension Reduction and Selection of Landmarks.- to Outlines.- Eigenshape Analysis of Left Ventricular Outlines from Contrast Ventriculograms.- Chi-Square Test of Biological Space Curve Affinities.- Spline Curves and Surfaces for Data Modeling.- Edgels and Tangent Planes in Image Warping.- Comparing Shapes of Organisms.- An Introduction to Geometric Morphometrics and Intraspecific Variation.- Fluctuating Asymmetry in Mus musculus Subspecific Hybridization.- Wing Venation Variability in Monarthropalpus buxi (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae) and the Quaternary Coevolution of Box (Buxus sempervirens L.) and Its Midge.- Size and Shape Variation in the Mandible of the Fossorial Rodent Spalax ehrenbergi.- Principal Components of Body Shape Variation within an Endemic Radiation of Threespine Stickleback.- A Landmark-Based Morphometrics Approach to the Systematics of Crocidurinae.- Three-Dimensional Landmark Techniques for the Recognition of Reef Coral Species.- to Comparison of Similar Objects Whose Group Identity is Known.- Identification of House Mice, Mus musculus, and Mound-Building Mice, M. spicilegus, Based on Distance and Landmark Data.- Correspondence between Interlandmark Distances and Caliper Measurements.- Some Applications of Geometric Morphometrics to Ostracoda.- Shape Changes during the Growth of the Sea Bass, Dicentrarchus labrax (Teleostea: Perciformes), in Relation to Different Rearing Conditions.- Sexual Dimorphism in the Craniofacial Skeleton of Modern Humans.- Sexual Dimorphism in Medieval Human Crania Studied by Three-Dimensional Thin-Plate Spline Analysis.- A Morphometric Model and Landmark Analysis of Acheulian Hand Axes from Northern Israel.- to Comparisons among Taxa at the Level of Species, Genus and Family.- The Evolution and Growth of the Hominid Pelvis.- Stephanodonty in Fossil Murids.- Comparative Landmark Analysis of Various Oxyuridae Parasites of Primates and Rodents.- Morphometric Pattern and Feeding Mode in Emperor Fishes (Lethrinidae, Perciformes).- Landmark-Based Size and Shape Analysis in Systematics of the Plecotine Bats.- Morphometric Analysis of Microscopic Hooks of Taeniid Tapeworms (Cestoda, Taeniidae).- A Taxonomic Comparison of Morphometric Methods.- Can Partial Warp Scores Be Used as Cladistic Characters?.