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

The premise of genetic analysis is that a causal link exists between phenotypic and allelic
variation. However, it has long been documented that mutant phenotypes are not a simple …

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 …

Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) is a multivariate classification technique frequently
applied to morphometric data in various biomedical disciplines. Canonical variate analysis …

Identifying the modular components of a configuration of landmarks is an important task of
morphometric analyses in evolutionary developmental biology. Modules are integrated …

Triglycerides are the major form of stored fat in all animals. One important determinant of
whole-body fat storage is whether an animal is male or female. Here, we use Drosophila, an …

Abstract Ocean Sampling Day was initiated by the EU-funded Micro B3 (Marine Microbial
Biodiversity, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology) project to obtain a snapshot of the marine …

Background Sexual dimorphism of body size has been the subject of numerous studies, but
few have examined sexual shape dimorphism (SShD) and its evolution. Allometry, the …

The recent expansion of a variety of morphometric tools has brought about a revolution in
the comparison of morphology in the context of the size and shape in various fields including …

The phenotypic effects of genetic and environmental manipulations have been rarely
investigated simultaneously. In addition to phenotypic plasticity, their effect on the amount …