Geometric Morphometrics and Phylogeny

Instructor. Dr. Chris Klingenberg (Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester)

Course requirements. Graduate or Postgraduate in Life or Earth Sciences, basic knowledge in statistics and in the use of personal computers. Knowledge of geometric morphometrics. Personal laptop is recommended. We would like to encourage participants to bring along their own morphometrics data and phylogeny information.

Language: English

Date: September 12-15,  2011

Site: Museum of the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont, Sabadell, Barcelona.

Program Topics

1) Phylogeny, trees and phylogenetic reasoning.

2) Brief review of geometric morphometrics (Procrustes fit, PCA, etc.).

3) Mapping traits onto phylogenies: squared-change parsimony.

4) Practice: making/editing Nexus files, mapping morphometric data onto the tree (Mesquite, MorphoJ).

5) Phylogenetic signal, morphometric traits and estimating phylogeny.

6) Comparative methods: independent contrasts.

7) Application in morphometrics: evolutionary allometry and size correction.,

8) Practice: comparative methods (MorphoJ).

9) Application of comparative methods: morphological integration

10) Multi-level analyses of integration: inferring evolutionary mechanisms

11) Application of comparative methods: partial least squares (ecomorphology, etc.)

12) Practice; comparative methods (cont.)

13) Morphometrics, phylogenies and qualitative characters

14) Disparity and diversification.

15) Presentations of group work.

Timetable. 10-13h and 15-18h

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Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP)