Course Readings

Text and Readings
Morphometric Tools for Landmark Data. (1997), F. L. Bookstein. (recommended).

Additional readings from edited volumes and published articles will be provided. Over the years, many of the morphometric workshops have resulted in published volumes, which contain valuable theoretical contributions. These books (as well as other morphometric publications) are often referred to by their color, and I will follow this color classification when referring them. The titles of these books are below:

Red Book (RB): Bookstein, F. L., Chernoff, B., Elder, R. L., Humphries, J. M. Jr., Smith, G. R., and Strauss, R. E. 1985. Morphometrics in evolutionary biology. Special publication 15. Academy of Natural Sciences Press, Philadelphia. 277 pp.

Blue Book (BB): Rohlf, F. J. and F. L. Bookstein (eds.) 1990. Proceedings of the Michigan morphometrics workshop. University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Special publ. No. 2.

Orange Book (OB): Bookstein, F. L. 1991. Morphometric tools for landmark data. Cambridge Press. 435 pp.

Black Book (BlkB): Marcus, L.F., Bello, E., Garcia-Valdecasas, A. (eds.) 1993.Contributions to morphometrics. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), vol. 8, Madrid, Spain. 264 pp.

White Book (WB): Marcus, L. F., M. Corti, A. Loy, G. J. P. Naylor, and D. Slice. 1996. Advances in morphometrics. NATO ASI Series A vol 284. Plenum.

Other Books of Interest:

*Publications used as course readings that are not found in the colored books are as follows:
1. Adams, D. C., and M. S. Rosenberg. 1998. Partial-warps, phylogeny, and ontogeny: a comment on Fink and Zelditch (1995). Systematic Biology. 47:168-173.
2. Adams, D. C. 1999. Methods for shape analysis of landmark data from articulated structures. Evolutionary Ecology Research. 1:959-970.
3. Adams, D. C., and M. M. Cerney. 2006. Quantifying biomechanical motion using Procrustes motion analysis. Journal of Biomechanics. (In Press).
4. Adams, D. C., and F. J. Rohlf. 2000. Ecological character displacement in Plethodon: biomechanical differences found from a geometric morphometric study. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. 97:4106-4111.
5. Adams, D. C., F. J. Rohlf, and D. E. Slice. 2004. Geometric morphometrics: Ten years of progress following the ‘revolution.’ Italian Journal of Zoology. 71:5-16.
6. Bookstein, F. L. 1996. Combining the tools of geometric morphometrics. Pp. 131-151 in Advances in morphometrics. (White Book).
7. Bookstein, F. L. 1997. Landmark methods for forms without landmarks: morphometrics of group differences in outline shape. Medical Image Analysis. 1:225-243.
8. Bookstein, F. L. 1998. A Hundred Years of Morphometrics. Acta Zoologica. 44:7-59.
9. Bookstein, F. L., K. Schafer, H. Prossinger, H. Seidler, M. Fieder, C. Stringer, G. W. Weber, J.-L. Arsuaga, D. E. Slice, F. J. Rohlf, W. Recheis, A. U. Mariam, and L. F. Marcus. 1999. Comparing frontal cranial profiles in archaic and modern Homo by morphometric analysis. The New Anat. 257:217-224.
10. Caldecutt, W. J., and D. C. Adams. 1998. Morphometrics of trophic osteology in four ecotypes of the threespine stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus. Copeia. 1998:827-838.
11. Carpenter, K. E., H. J. Sommer III, and L. F. Marcus. 1996. Converting truss interlandmark distances to Cartesian coordinates. Pp. 103-111 in Advances in morphometrics. (White Book).
12. Ferson, S., F. J. Rohlf, and R. K. Koehn. 1985. Measuring shape vari¬ation of two-dimensional outlines. Systematic Zoology, 34:59 68.
13. Fink, W. L., and M. L. Zelditch. 1995. Phylogenetic analysis of ontogenetic shape transformations: a reassessment of the piranha genus Pygocentrus (Teleostei). Systematic Biology. 44:344-361.
14. Klingenberg, C. P. 1996. Multivariate allometry. Pp. 23-49 in Advances in morphometrics. (White Book).
15. Marcus, L. F. 1993. Some aspects of multivariate statistics for morphometrics. Pp. 96-130 in Contributions to morphometrics. (Black Book).
16. Monteiro, L. R., B. Bordin, and S. Furtado dos Reis. 2000. Shape distances, shape spaces and the comparison of morphometric methods. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 15:217-220.
17. Rohlf, 1990. Fitting curves to outlines. Pp. 167-177 in Proceedings of the Michigan Morphometrics Workshop. (Blue Book).
18. Rohlf, F. J. 1995. Multivariate analysis of shape using partial-warp scores. Pp. 154-158 in Mardia, K. V., and C. A. Gill, (eds.). Proceedings in current issues in statistical shape analysis. Leeds Univ. Press, Leeds.
19. Rohlf, F. J. 1996. Morphometric spaces, shape components, and the effects of linear transformations. Pp. 117-127 in Advances in morphometrics. (White Book).
20. Rohlf, F. J. 1998. On applications of geometric morphometrics to studies of ontogeny and phylogeny. Systematic Biology. 47:147-158.
21. Rohlf, F. J. 1999. Shape statistics: Procrustes superimpositions and tangent spaces. Journal of Classification. 16:197-223.
22. Rohlf, F. J. 2000a. On the use of shape spaces to compare morphometric methods. Hystrix. 11: 9-25.
23. Rohlf, F. J. 2000b: Statistical power comparisons among alternative morphometric methods. Amer. J. Phys. Anthropol. 111:463-478.
24. Rohlf, F. J. 2003. Bias and error in estimates of mean shape in geometric morphometrics. J. Hum. Evol. 44:665-683.
25. Rohlf, F. J., and Slice, D. E. 1990. Extensions of the Procrustes method for the optimal superimposition of landmarks. Systematic Zoology 39:40-59.
26. Rohlf, F. J., and L. F. Marcus. 1993. A revolution in morphometrics. Trends in Ecol. & Evol. 8:129-132.
27. Rohlf, F. J., and F. L. Bookstein. 2003. Computing the uniform component of shape variation. Syst. Biol. 52:66-69.
28. Rüber, L., and D. C. Adams. 2001. Evolutionary convergence of body shape and trophic morphology in cichlids from Lake Tanganyika. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 14:325-332.
29. Slice, D. E. 2001. Landmark coordinates aligned by Procrustes analysis do not lie in Kendall’s shape space. Systematic Biology. 50:141-149.


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