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Subject: How to eliminate the effect of sexual dimorphism?
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 04:03:49 -0500
From: tina klenovsek <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Dear All!
I hope you can help me!
The thing is that I would like to compare mandibles of five populations
of two different mammal species. The problem is I also have sexual
dimorphism both in shape and size and small samples. Therefore I was
thinking if I could somehow eliminate the part of variation that is the
effect of gender and in subsequent analysis of phylogeny use pooled sexes.
I know how to get the 'allometry-free' shape data and do the test for
common slopes. But what about sexual dimorphism? Is it possible?
Thank you in advance!
Tina Klenovšek
Faculty of natural sciences and mathematics
University of Maribor
Slovenia
