Relations and dependencies between morphological characters

In biological classification, a character is a property of a taxon that can distinguish it from other taxa. Characters are not independent, and the relations between characters can arise from structural constraints, developmental pathways or functional constraints. That has lead to famous controvers...

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Autor principal: Jost, Jürgen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5486545/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28569346
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12064-017-0248-z
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description In biological classification, a character is a property of a taxon that can distinguish it from other taxa. Characters are not independent, and the relations between characters can arise from structural constraints, developmental pathways or functional constraints. That has lead to famous controversies in the history of biology. In addition, a character as a tool of data analysis has some subjective aspects. In this contribution, I develop algebraic and geometric schemes to address these issues in a mathematical framework.
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spelling pubmed-54865452017-07-17 Relations and dependencies between morphological characters Jost, Jürgen Theory Biosci Original Paper In biological classification, a character is a property of a taxon that can distinguish it from other taxa. Characters are not independent, and the relations between characters can arise from structural constraints, developmental pathways or functional constraints. That has lead to famous controversies in the history of biology. In addition, a character as a tool of data analysis has some subjective aspects. In this contribution, I develop algebraic and geometric schemes to address these issues in a mathematical framework. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2017-05-31 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5486545/ /pubmed/28569346 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12064-017-0248-z Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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title_full_unstemmed Relations and dependencies between morphological characters
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5486545/
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