Deciphering the Hearts: Geometric Morphometrics Reveals Shape Variation in Abatus Sea Urchins across Subantarctic and Antarctic Seas
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1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
3. Results
4. Discussion
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Centroid Size | |||||
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Effect | SS | MS | df | F | p |
Localities | 238.214 | 79.404681 | 3 | 73.83 | <0.0001 |
Sex | 0.57326 | 0.57326 | 1 | 0.53 | 0.4679 |
Individual | 72.059 | 1.075507 | 67 | ||
Shape | |||||
Localities | 0.03835 | 0.0003653 | 105 | 46.39 | <0.0001 |
Sex | 0.00011 | 0.000003278 | 35 | 0.42 | 0.999 |
Individual | 0.01847 | 0.000007874 | 2345 | 2.77 | <0.0001 |
A. agassizii | A. cordatus | A. cavernosus (F/M) | |
A. cordatus | 12.1293 * | ||
A. cavernosus (F/M) | 13.4967 * | 9.5791 * | |
A. cavernosus (P) | 10.5548 * | 7.9832 * | 10.1073 * |
A. agassizii | A. cordatus | A. cavernosus (F/M) | |
A. cordatus | 0.0244 * | ||
A. cavernosus (F/M) | 0.0657 * | 0.0537 * | |
A. cavernosus (P) | 0.0191 * | 0.0171 * | 0.0527 * |
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Moya, F.; Hernández, J.; Suazo, M.J.; Saucède, T.; Brickle, P.; Poulin, E.; Benítez, H.A. Deciphering the Hearts: Geometric Morphometrics Reveals Shape Variation in Abatus Sea Urchins across Subantarctic and Antarctic Seas. Animals 2024, 14, 2376. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14162376
Moya F, Hernández J, Suazo MJ, Saucède T, Brickle P, Poulin E, Benítez HA. Deciphering the Hearts: Geometric Morphometrics Reveals Shape Variation in Abatus Sea Urchins across Subantarctic and Antarctic Seas. Animals. 2024; 14(16):2376. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14162376
Chicago/Turabian StyleMoya, Fernando, Jordan Hernández, Manuel J. Suazo, Thomas Saucède, Paul Brickle, Elie Poulin, and Hugo A. Benítez. 2024. "Deciphering the Hearts: Geometric Morphometrics Reveals Shape Variation in Abatus Sea Urchins across Subantarctic and Antarctic Seas" Animals 14, no. 16: 2376. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14162376