Data on the shape of teeth can be used to test hypotheses about the relationship between adaptive and stochastic processes involved in morphologic divergence between populations. We used 7 ...

Understanding the shape or morphology of neurons and mapping the tree-like branches via which they receive signals from other cells (i.e., dendrites) is a long-standing objective of neuroscience ...

While gut morphology has been suggested to play an important role, its influence has not been systematically validated across comprehensive gut types or broad mammalian taxonomic levels. Moreover, due ...

The genus Rhoadsia is endemic to western Ecuador and northern Peru and includes two described species that differ in body form, size, and the elevations at which they occur. Unfortunately, there is ...

There are numerous types of pollen within a variety of species. Various types of pollen were examined with the use of Dynamic Image Analysis, to determine whether their morphology (shape properties) ...

Cambridge, Mass., February 22, 2010 -- From how massive humpbacks glide through the sea with ease to the efficient way fungal spores fly, applied mathematicians at Harvard have excavated the equations ...