Numerical characterization of animal body forms using elliptical Fourier decomposition may be a useful analytic technique in a variety of marine mammal investigations. Using data collected from the Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddellii), we describe the method of body form characterization using elliptical Fourier analysis and demonstrated usefulness of the technique in photogrammetric mass-est...

in this study, by examining the character of the morphometric and meristic characters of garra variabilis samples which is obtained from different locality in tigris river, morphometric characters which are transformed, subjected to discriminant analysis and depending on grouping model, number of discriminant functions and according to importance of these in terms of explaining total variance, ...

inter- and intra-population variations of a recently described endemic cyprinid fish alburnoides qanati coad and bogutskaya, 2009 collected from three localities in the kor river basin, iran, were studied by applying morphometric and meristic characters using canonical discriminate function analysis (dfa), principal component analysis (pca) and cluster analysis (ca). in dfa, the overall random ...

This study describes proboscis morphology and identifies morphometric differences among five species of noctuid moths with different feeding habits (fruit versus nectar-feeding). Morphological and morphometric parameters were analyzed using scanning electron microscopy and light microscopy. Measurements included: galea height in ten sites from base to tip, total proboscis length, and length of ...

Seventeen morphometric and seven meristic body characteristics were examined in 406 specimens of damselfish (234 females and 172 males) caught in the middle Adriatic (near the Korčula and Kopište Islands). The differences between the mean values of the measured morphometric characteristics in the males and females were not statistically significant. Modes were identical in males and females for...

A multivariate classification approach has been presented to examine the brain abnormalities, i.e., due to prenatal cocaine exposure, using both structural and functional brain images. First, a regional statistical feature extraction scheme was adopted to capture discriminative features from voxel-wise morphometric and functional representations of brain images, in order to reduce the dimension...