What is it about?
We applied morphometric tools to evaluate body shape and reveal/test taxonomic characters in water mites.
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Why is it important?
The protocol we defined, can be applied to another organisms with similar systematic problems: a lot of species, few taxonomic characters proved useful and, controversies about their systematics.
Perspectives
Morphometric tools had been proved useful for answer different biological questions, however their use in invertebrates (and other groups as plants) has been poorly explored. I hope this work inspire other researches to applied these methods to resolve a sort of questions, systematics related in particular. I think it's time taxonomists move forward and use sophisticated methods as well as other researchers do.
Miss Marcia Ramírez-Sánchez
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
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This page is a summary of: Geometric and traditional morphometrics for the assessment of character state identity: multivariate statistical analyses of character variation in the genusArrenurus(Acari, Hydrachnidia, Arrenuridae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, January 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP),
DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12384.
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