Monday Lecture Series
Quantifying Morphogenesis and Morphological Variation
Otger Campas, Ph.D.,
SysCODE Fellow
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Department of Organismic
and Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University and Harvard Medical School
October 25, 2010
4:00 p.m. Welch Hall Level Two
Recommended Readings:
Campas, O; Mallarino, R; Herrel, A et al. 2010. Scaling and shear transformations capture beak shape variation in Darwin’s finches. PNAS 107(8): 3356-3360
Van Bocxlaer, B; Schultheiss, R. 2010. Comparison of morphometric techniques for shapes with few homologous landmarks based on machine-learning approaches to biological discrimination. Paleobiology. 36(3):497-515 Please request from Markus Library.
Abzhanov, A; Kuo, WP; Hartmann, C; Grant, BR; Grant, PR; Tabin, CJ. 2006. The Calmodulin pathway and evolution of elongated beak morphology of Darwin’s finches. NATURE. 442(7102):563-567
Burns, KJ; Hackett, SJ; Klein, NK. 2002. Phylogenetic relationships and morphological diversity in Darwin’s finches and their relatives. Evolution. 56(6):1240-1252
Arthur, W. 2006. D’Arcy Thompson and the theory of transformations. NATURE Reviews Genetics. 7(5):401-U3
Kirschn er, M; Gerhart, J. 1998. Evolvability. PNAS. 95(15): 8420-8427
Sato, A; Tichy, H; O’huigin, C; Grant, PR; Grant, BR; Klein, J. 2001. On the origin of Darwin’s finches. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 18(3):299-311
Petren, K; Grant, PR; Grant, BR; Keller, LF. 2005. Comparative landscape genetics and the adaptive radiation of Darwin’s finches: the role of peripheral isolation. Molecular Ecology. 14(10):2943-2957
Stone, JR. 1997. The spirit of D’Arcy Thompson dwells in empirical morphospace. Mathematical Biosciences. 142(1):13-30 Please request from Markus Library