Società Botanica Italiana onlus

Associazione scientifica fondata nel 1888

Geometric Morphometrics Laboratory for Systematics and Evolutionary Researches

Program

MORNING SESSIONS: 2 h lesson + 2h lab
Lecturers: Dean C. Adams and Dennis E. Slice
Monday 1 February
Dean C. Adams - Introduction to Geometric Morphometrics: Were we are and where we go
Dennis E. Slice - PCA, PLS, Discriminant analysis, Classification

Tuesday 2 February
Dean C. Adams and Dennis E. Slice - Overview of available morphometrics software and intro to R.

Wednesday 3 February
Dennis E. Slice - Allometry
Dean C. Adams - Sliding landmarks, outlines

Thursday 4 February
Dean C. Adams and Dennis E. Slice Overview of available software for advanced analyses

Friday 5 February
Dennis E. Slice - Asymmetry analysis
Dean C. Adams - Comparative methods

AFTERNOON SESSIONS: 1 h lesson + 2h lab
Andrea Cardini - The spatial dimension of evolutionary morphology: applications of geometric
morphometrics to biogeography. Examples of analyses of spatial data in geometric morphometrics
Paolo Piras and Luciano Teresi - Shape, function and phylogeny: finite element modeling
Pasquale Raia - Ontogeny, phylogeny and geometric morphometrics. Inspecting shape change over growth.and comparative methods applied to Geometric Morphometrics data.

Paolo Colangelo and Anna Loy – Combining molecular and morphological data for systematic and evolutionary researches

Example of software that will be explained and used at the Lab
. R routines for GM data acquisition and analysis
. Tps series by F. J. Rohlf: http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/morph/
. Morphologika O’Higgins P and Jones N: http://hyms.fme.googlepages.com/downloadmorphologica
. MorphoJ by P. Klingeberg : http://www.flywings.org.uk/MorphoJ_page.htm
. Morpheus et al. by D. E. Slice: http://www.morphometrics.org/id6.html
. IMP series: http://www3.canisius.edu/~sheets/morphsoft
. PAST http://folk.uio.no/ohammer/past/
. NTSYS (Exteter software http://www.exetersoftware.com )
. Mesquite by W. P. Maddison and D. R. Maddison Http://mesquiteproject.org/mesquite/mesquite.html
. Arcview /ArcGIS (ESRI: http://www.esri.com