Large-scale surveys of rotifer and tardigrade diversity using traditional approaches makes for a large and unwieldy set of tasks (i.e. difficulties associated with isolation, identification and enumeration of organisms that do not preserve any discernable morphological characters).
In addition, the Digital Fish Library www.digitalfishlibrary.org describes the morphological diversity of fishes using MRI [28].
Moreover, the M strategy sampled molecular diversity but also morphological diversity even for traits that were not used as markers for sampling the collection.
Coordinate based shape analyses of anatomical landmarks were used to describe patterns of morphological diversity and determine positions of functional groups in a skull morphospace.
We studied the distribution and morphological diversity of badlands in the upper Llobregat basin (Catalan Pyrenees, NE Spain), using remote sensing information (high-resolution orthophotos and complementary Landsat 8 imagery), digital elevation data, and regional information on lithology.
To understand the phylogenetic relationships causing morphological diversity in NHCC, a neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree was constructed by MEGA5 using 10 NHCC accessions and Chinese cabbage Chiifu-401-42 [ 34].
Because of differences in genetic and morphological diversity patterns in 'wild' versus 'domesticated' forms of the tomato continuum, core collections were sampled using both phenotypic and molecular diversity.
They illustrate the limits of the use of variety names to assess genetic and morphological diversity [ 53] and to elaborate sampling strategies for the conservation of genetic resources [ 28].
In C. intestinalis larvae, the frequency of mutations displaying loss, size alteration or supranumerary sensory organs provides a number of phylo-mimicking phenotypes that may be used to uncover the changes in regulatory gene networks that underlie the morphological diversity.
For 125 individuals representing the taxonomic and morphological diversity of each assemblage (supplementary material, Table S1) we recorded the x-y coordinates of 21 landmarks using tpsDig 1.40 [23] (Figure 1).
