J 2008

Geographic phenetic variation of two eastern-Mediterranean non-commensal

MACHOLÁN, Miloš, Ondřej MIKULA a Vladimír VOHRALÍK

Základní údaje

Originální název

Geographic phenetic variation of two eastern-Mediterranean non-commensal

Autoři

MACHOLÁN, Miloš (203 Česká republika, garant), Ondřej MIKULA (203 Česká republika) a Vladimír VOHRALÍK (203 Česká republika)

Vydání

Zoologischer Anzeiger, Německo, Elsevier, 2008, 0044-5231

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

10600 1.6 Biological sciences

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 1.319

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14310/08:00033036

Organizační jednotka

Přírodovědecká fakulta

UT WoS

000254628800006

Klíčová slova anglicky

Mus macedonicus; Mus cypriacus; Phenotypic variation; Multivariate analysis; Geometric morphometrics; Thin-plate
Změněno: 16. 2. 2010 11:37, prof. RNDr. Miloš Macholán, CSc.

Anotace

V originále

We tested the hypothesis that skull shape within the genus Mus may vary with geographic location by assessing the extent and spatial distribution of phenotypic skull variation within and among two wild mouse species, M. macedonicus and M. cypriacus, using traditional and geometric morphometrics including a rather novel application of sliding semilandmarks. Shape was shown to be significantly correlated both with longitude and latitude in M. macedonicus, yet the correlation between morphometric and geographic distances was not significant, and morphometric differences between Asian and European populations were not higher than those within the particular continents. The phylogenetic signal was found to be stronger in dental characters than in cranial ones, however, overall concordance between the pattern of morphometric variation and the presumed history of M. macedonicus was rather weak. In both species, the dorsal and ventral sides of the skull were shown to covary in many aspects though there were also some differences between them, making the functional interpretation of these differences difficult. Discrimination between M. cypriacus and M. macedonicus as well as discrimination between two M. macedonicus subspecies was highly reliable using both traditional and geometric morphometric tools to analyze skull measurements.