Geometric morphometrics and phylogeny

This paper reviews some of the important properties of geometric morphometric shape variables and discusses the advantages and limitations of the use of such data in studies of phylogeny. A method for fitting morphometric data to a phylogeny (i.e., estimating ancestral states of the shape variables) is presented using the squared-change parsimony criterion for estimation. These results are then used to illustrate shape change along a phylogeny as a deformation of the shape of any other node on the tree (e.g., the estimated root of the tree). In addition, a method to estimate the digitized image of an ancestor is given that uses averages of unwarped images. An example dataset with 18 wing landmarks for 11 species of mosquitoes is used to illustrate the methods.

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