Université de Fribourg

The use of digital image-based morphometrics to study the phenotypic mosaic in taxa with porous genomes

Lexer, Christian ; Jeffrey, Joseph ; Loo, Marcela van ; Prenner, Gerhard ; Heinze, Berthold ; Chase, Mark W. ; Kirkup, Don

In: Taxon, 2009, vol. 58, no. 2, p. 349-364

Rapid recent developments in DNA sequencing and genetic marker technologies call for the establishment of cost-effective, automated phenotyping assays for evolutionary biology and systematics, so that the effects of DNA polymorphisms and epigenetic changes on the phenotype can be evaluated. We discuss the use of digital image-based morphometrics in evolutionary biology and systematics with...