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Biometry: the principles and practice of statistics in biological research 2nd edition.
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The book aims to instill in students an ability to think through biological research problems in such a way as to grasp the essentials of the experimental or analytical setup to know which types of statistical tests to apply in a given case and to carry out the computations required.Abstract:
This text develops the science of biometry from an elementary introduction up to the advanced methods necessary for biological research and for an understanding of the published literature. This text is aimed primarily at the academic biologist including general zoologists botanists microbiologists geneticists and physiologists in universities research institutes and museums. This book while furnishing ample directions for the analysis of experimental works also stresses the descriptive and analytical statistical study of biological phenomena. It is intended both as a text to accompany a lecture course and as a complete course for self-study. The book aims to instill in students an ability to think through biological research problems in such a way as to grasp the essentials of the experimental or analytical setup to know which types of statistical tests to apply in a given case and to carry out the computations required. Chapters cover biological data data handling descriptive statistics probability estimation and hupothesis testing analysis of variance linear regression correlation multiple and curvilinear regression analysis of frequencies and miscellaneous methods.read more
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Vegetation structure and composition along an interior-edge-exterior gradient in a Costa Rican montane cloud forest.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a study was carried out in Costa Rican Cordillera de Talamanca in order to assess changes in vegetation structure and floristic composition along a gradient from the interior of tropical upper montane cloud forest into adjacent pastureland.
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Physiological energetics of developing embryos and yolk-sac larvae of Atlantic cod ( Gadus morhua ). I. Respiration and nitrogen metabolism
TL;DR: The stoichiometric relation of the oxygen consumption and total ammonia production to substrate utilisation indicated that during the first 2 to 3 d of development, glycogen was the sole substrate of oxidative metabolism.
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Phylogeography of two Atlantic squirrelfishes (Family Holocentridae): exploring links between pelagic larval duration and population connectivity
TL;DR: Results indicate that pelagic larval duration is a poor predictor of population genetic structure in Atlantic reef fishes, and a key to understanding this disparity may be the evolutionary depth among corresponding taxonomic groups of “reef fishes”.
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Morphological evolution through complex domains of fitness
TL;DR: Computer simulated phenotypic walks through multi-dimensional fitness-landscapes indicate that (i) the number of phenotypes capable of reconciling conflicting morphological requirements increases in proportion to thenumber of manifold functional obligations an organism must perform to grow, survive, and reproduce, and (ii) walks over multi-task fitness- landscapes require fewer but larger phenotyping transformations than those through single-task landscapes.
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Spatially uniform relieff (SURF) for computationally-efficient filtering of gene-gene interactions.
TL;DR: Spatially Uniform ReliefF (SURF) is introduced and its ability to detect interactions in this domain is significantly greater than that of ReliefF, and in combination with the TuRF strategy significantly outperforms TuRF alone for SNP selection under an epistasis model.