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Even though developmental biology seeks to provide developmental explanations for morphological variation, the quantification of morphological variation has been regarded as peripheral to the mechanistic study of development. In this chapter, we argue that this is now changing because the rapidly advancing knowledge of development in post-genomic biology is creating a need for more refined measurements of the morphological changes produced by genetic perturbations or treatments. This need, in turn, is driving the development of new morphometric methods that allow the rapid and meaningful integration of molecular, cellular and morphometric data. We predict that such integration will offer new ways of looking at development, which will lead to significant advances in the study of dysmorphology and also the relationship between the generation of variation through development and its transformation through evolutionary history.
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Hallgrímsson, B., Boughner, J.C., Turinsky, A., Parsons, T.E., Logan, C., Sensen, C.W. (2009). Geometric Morphometrics and the Study of Development. In: Sensen, C.W., Hallgrímsson, B. (eds) Advanced Imaging in Biology and Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68993-5_15
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