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.

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Theory and Methods: An Idiosyncratic History of Early Morphometrics; R.A. Reyment. Multivariate Allometry; C.P. Klingenberg. Data Acquisition: Introduction to Data Acquisition; L.F. Marcus. Three-dimensional Data Capture and Acquisition; D. Dean. Two-dimensional Imaging: An Update; A. GarciaValdecasas. Imagina: A Direct Tool for Image Analysis in Systematics; J.M. Becerra. Landmark Methods: Introduction to Landmark Methods; D. Slice. Morphometric Spaces, Shape Components and the Effects of Linear Transformations; F.J. Rohlf. Combining the Tools of Geometric Morphometrics; F.L. Bookstein. Standard Formula for the Uniform Shape Component in Landmark Data; F.L. Bookstein. Affine Transformations as a Modelof Virtual Form Change for Generating Morphospaces; D. Russkin-Gutman, A.D. Buscalioni. Outlines: With and without Landmarks: Introduction to Outlines; F.J. Rohlf. Eigenshape Analysis of Left Ventricular Outlines from Contrast Ventriculograms; P.D. Sampson, et al. Chisquare Test of Biological Space Curve Affinities; D. Dean, et al. Comparing Shapes of Organisms: Geographic Comparisons: Introduction to Geometric Morphometrics and Intraspecific Variation: A Fascinating Adventure; A. Loy. Fluctuating Asymmetry in Mus musculus Subspecific Hybridization: Traditional and Procrustes Comparative Approach; J.C. Auffray, et al. Wing Venation Variability in Monarthropalpus buxi; (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae) and the Quaternary Coevolution of Box; (Buxus sempervirens L.) and Its Midge: A Geometrical Morphometric Analysis; M. Baylac, T. Daufresne. Size and Shape Variation in the Mandible of the Fossorial Rodent Spalax ehrenbergi: A Procrustes Analysis of Three Dimensions; M. Corti, et al. Principal Components of Body Shape Variation within an Endemic Radiation of Threespine Stickleback; J. Walker. Low Taxonomic Level and Intraspecific Comparisons: Introduction to Comparison of Similar Objects Whose Group Identity Is Known; M. Corti. Identification of House Mice Musmusculus, and Mound Building Mice, M. spicilegus, Based on Distance and Landmark Data; A. Demeter et al.. Correspondence between Interlandmark Distances and Caliper Measurements; S. Reig. Some Applications of Geometric Morphometrics to Ostracoda; R.A. Reyment. Shape Changes during the Growth of the Sea Bass, Dicentrarchus labrax (Teleostea: Perciformes), in Relation to Different Rearing Conditions: An Application of Thinplate Spline Regression Analysis; A. Loy, et al. Higher Taxonomic Level Comparisons: Introduction to Comparisons amongTaxa at the Level of Species, Genus and Family; G. Naylor. The Evolution and Growth of the Hominid Pelvis: A Preliminary Thinplate Spline Study of Ilium Shape; C. Berge. Stephanodonty in Fossil Murids: A Landmark based Morphometric Approach; J. van Dam. 16 additional articles. Appendixes. Index.