Approximately two decades after the first pioneering analyses, the study of shape asymmetry
with the methods of geometric morphometrics has matured and is a burgeoning field. New …

Morphological traits have long been a focus of evolutionary developmental biology ('evo-
devo'), but new methods for quantifying shape variation are opening unprecedented …

An important aspect of geometric morphometrics, since its beginnings, has been the
visualization of shape changes. A range of methods has been developed with advances in …

Biological systems, from molecular complexes to whole organisms and ecological
interactions, tend to have a modular organization. Modules are sets of traits that are …

Pérez-Losada, M., JT Hoeg, and KA Crandall. 2004. Unravelling the evolutionary radiation
of the Thoracian barnacles using molecular and morphological evidence: A comparison of …

We compare and contrast the genetic architecture of quantitative phenotypes in two
genetically well-characterized model organisms, the laboratory mouse, Mus musculus, and …

Morphological integration and modularity have become central concepts in evolutionary
biology and geometric morphometrics. This review summarizes the most frequently used …

Over the past 15 years, more than 2,000 quantitative trait loci (QTLs) have been identified in
crosses between inbred strains of mice and rats, but less than 1% have been characterized …

▪ Abstract Variation in the subtle differences between right and left sides of bilateral
characters, or fluctuating asymmetry (FA), has long been considered to be primarily …

Morphometrics underwent a revolution more than one decade ago. In the modern
morphometrics, the estimate of size is now contained in a single variable reflecting variation …