Size, shape, and form: concepts of allometry in geometric morphometrics

• Published in: Development Genes and Evolution Vol. 226; no. 3; pp. 113 - 137
• Main Author: Klingenberg, Christian Peter
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.06.2016; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Allometry; Anatomy - methods; Animal Genetics and Genomics; Animals; Biological Evolution; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Body Size; Cell Biology; Conformation; Developmental Biology; evolution; Evolutionary Biology; Genetic Variation; Geometric morphometrics; geometry; Humans; Life Sciences; Morphology; Morphometry; Plant Genetics and Genomics; Regression Analysis; Review; Size and Shape; Zoology; Procrustes superimposition; Geometric morphometrics; Shape; Centroid size; Form; Size correction; Multivariate regression; Allometry; Conformation; Principal component analysis
• ISSN: 0949-944X; 3059-3239; 1432-041X; 1432-041X; 3059-3247
• DOI: 10.1007/s00427-016-0539-2

Allometry refers to the size-related changes of morphological traits and remains an essential concept for the study of evolution and development. This review is the first systematic comparison of allometric methods in the context of geometric morphometrics that considers the structure of morphologic...