Morphometrics Medical Entomology
Morphometrics in Medical Entomology,
J.-P. Dujardin,
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Introduction dans la langue de Voltaire, c'est ici, Introduccion en el idioma de Cervantes, es aquí.

The first characters to be affected by microevolutionary changes are continuous characters (Falconer). Morphometrics measures them and represents a low-cost tool adapted to the study of phenotypic evolution. In medically important insects, this study may have importance at an epidemiological level. I present here a few tools dedicated to students, to scientists and to health services, helping at species identification and population characterization. They are currently focused on Triatominae, the vectors of Chagas disease in Latin America, and Phlebotominae, the vectors of (neotropical) leishmaniasis, but can be applied to other insects or organisms.
NEW -> This web site now provides some VIDEO HELP; you can follow the sequence of the various steps required by the software to perform a given analysis. Not all modules have the VIDEO help, just be patient, I am working on it. See a short example about how to use the TET module here. <- NEW
  • A very first help to start ? It's here
  • Jean-Pierre Dujardin: Publications
  • Except for IMO, this software is provided under the GPL license. The license does not apply to the pictures provided by the CAT and FLEBOL packages.
    Medical entomology

    The Triatominae, vectors of Chagas disease
    		CiberAtlas de los Triatominae, August 2007, version 07
    The Phlebotominae, vectors of leishmaniasis of the New World CIBERATLAS de los FLEBOTOMINAE de BOLIVIA
    Morphometrics
    Short spanish introduction to morphometrics. IMO Version unchanged, 2000
    Utilities (store, retrieve and manipulate your data) TET Version 47 April 2009
    Collecting landmarks COO Version 39 July 2008 -
    Multivariate analyses
    (Hume's library of Linear Algebra)     		BAC Version 35 Jan 2008
    PAD Version 91 Nov. 2009
    COV Version 96 Oct. 2009
    Superimposition in geometric morphometrics MOG Version 82 Jan. 2009
    Size and shape symmetry ASI Version 22, Jan. 2009
    Size analysis, Qst, Repeatability of size, Repeatability of LM, RW. VAR Version 1.9 Oct 2009
    BANK of REFERENCE IMAGES CLIC (Prototype) June 2009