内投药
形态计量学
地标
克莱德
生物
计算机科学
进化生物学
系统发育树
人工智能
解剖
动物
颅骨
生物化学
基因
作者
Rémi Allemand,Camilo López‐Aguirre,Jade Abdul‐Sater,Waqqas Khalid,Madlen M. Lang,Simone Macrì,Nicolas Di‐Poï,Gheylen Daghfous,Mary Silcox
摘要
Landmark-based geometric morphometrics is widely used to study the morphology of the endocast, or internal mold of the braincase, and the diversity associated with this structure across vertebrates. Landmarks, as the basic unit of such methods, are intended to be points of correspondence, selected depending on the question at hand, whose proper definition is essential to guarantee robustness and reproducibility of results. In this study, 20 landmarks are defined to provide a framework to analyze the morphological variability in squamate endocasts. Ten species representing a cross-section of the diversity of Squamata from both phylogenetic and ecological (i.e., habitat) perspectives were considered, to select landmarks replicable throughout the entire clade, regardless of the degree of neuroanatomical resolution of the endocast. To assess the precision, accuracy, and repeatability of these newly defined landmarks, both intraobserver and interobserver error were investigated. Estimates of measurement error show that most of the landmarks established here are highly replicable, and preliminary results suggest that they capture aspects of endocast shape related to both phylogenetic and ecologic signals. This study provides a basis for further examinations of squamate endocast disparity using landmark-based geometric morphometrics.
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