1. Phenotypic variation of gizzard shad, Anodontostoma chacunda (Hamilton, 1822) based on truss network model
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M. R. Chaklader, Md. Abu Hanif, Muhammad A. B. Siddik, Ashfaqun Nahar, Rowan Kleindienst, and Javed Foysal
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0106 biological sciences ,Morphometrics ,geography ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Ecology ,geography.lake ,010604 marine biology & hydrobiology ,Truss ,Aquatic Science ,Biology ,01 natural sciences ,Anodontostoma chacunda ,Gizzard shad ,Discriminant function analysis ,Statistics ,Principal component analysis ,Animal Science and Zoology ,Analysis of variance ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Abstract
Populations of gizzard shad, Anodontostoma chacunda from four adjoining rivers (Karnafuli, Feni, Bhulua, and Moheskhali) of the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh, were studied to investigate phenotypic structure on the basis of body shape morphometrics using a truss network model. A total of 28 distance variables were extracted by interconnecting 12 morphometric landmarks. The transformed morphometric measurements were subjected to discriminate function analysis (DFA), principal component analysis (PCA), cluster analysis (CA) and univariate analysis of variance (ANOVA). Based on the analysis of variance, all morphometric measurements differed significantly (P
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- 2019
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