Article
Structural Equation Modeling Reveals How Allometry Shapes Integration in Avian Cranial Evolution.
Integrative and comparative biology - 12 Jan 2026
Oyston J W, Thorson J T, Knapp A, Marek R D, Felice R N
Abstract excerpt
Testing hypotheses of phenotypic modularity involves assessing whether groups of traits covary more strongly with each other than with parts outside the group. Structural equation modeling (SEM) is a flexible statistical framework for interrogating complex relationships between sets of variables, making it ideally suited to studies of hierarchical modularity and integration. However, quantifying the modular...
Topics
- Animals
- Skull
- Biological Evolution
- Birds
- Brain
- Models, Biological
- Phenotype
- Phylogeny