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Morphological variation within the Cathorops mapale group was quantified using morphometric and meristic analyses.

Morphometric and meristic analyses were also done to assess morphologic variation.

Additionally, divergence times were estimated via molecular clock analyses and morphological variation quantified using morphometric and meristic approaches.

These results, along with physiological, morphometric, and meristic studies (e.g., [152], [153]) show that local populations have adapted to spatial differences in environmental conditions and increased the biodiversity within individual species.

Meristic data were not transformed; therefore morphometric and meristic data sets were analyzed separately, encompassing univariate and multivariate analyses in R. Each character was evaluated for departure from univariate normality with Shapiro-Francia tests [ 135].

Morphological similarity indices (Fig. 5B), and a principal component analysis of morphometric and meristic measurements (Fig. 5C) further supported the phenotypically and genetically inferred identity of the parental species.

Therefore, a total of 40 morphometric variables (six metric and meristic traits, including Csize and 34 landmark coordinates) were used in the following QTL mapping analyses.

During annual salmon population surveys on the St. Marys River (1998 2002), fifty putative hybrids of pink salmon and Chinook salmon were identified from meristic, morphometric and color characters.

Samples for barcoding originated from expert-identified specimens based on morphological criteria (meristic, morphometric and colouration) currently recognized in recent monographs [33], [34], [35], [36], [37].

Furthermore, T. macedonicus and T. karelinii can be distinguished by morphology, including meristic, morphometric and qualitative characters [ 14, 19].

Historic walleye (76% morphometric, 71% meristic data) and "blue pike" (68%, 57%) more often self-assign, but have high mis-assignment to each other, similar to the Geneclass results.