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Andrea Cardini - Publications
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Articles (on international peer-reviewed journals with IF)
Cardini A., PREPRINT. Shall we all adopt, with no worries, the ‘within a configuration’ approach in geometric morphometrics? A comment on claims that the effect of the superimposition and sliding on shape data is “not an obstacle to analyses of integration and modularity https://ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view/5599/, https://doi.org/10.32942/X22W2Z
Daboul A., et al., Cardini A., 2023. Do brachycephaly and nose size predict the severity of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA)? A sample based geometric morphometric analysis of craniofacial variation in relation to OSA syndrome and the role of confounding factors. Journal of Sleep Research, 305(6): 1402-1434: https://doi.org/10.1111/jsr.13801
Cardini A., 2022. As fast as a hare: Did intraspecific morphological change bring the Hallands Väderö Island population of Lepus timidus close to interspecific differences in less than 150 years? Zoology, 152, 126014. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.zool.2022.126014
Cardini A., Verderame A.M 2022. Procrustes shape cannot be analyzed, interpreted or visualized one landmark at a time. Evolutionary Biology, 49: 239–254.
Cardini A., Y. A. de Jong, T. M. Butynski. Can morphotaxa be assessed with photographs? Estimating the accuracy of 2D cranial geometric morphometrics for the study of threatened populations of African monkeys. The Anatomical Record, 6:1402-1434. DOI: 10.1002/ar.24787
Milella M., Franklin D., Belcastro M. G., Cardini A. Sexual differences in human cranial morphology: is one sex more variable or one region more dimorphic? The Anatomical Record, 12: 2789-2810. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.24626
Cardini A., et al. 2021. On the misidentification of species: sampling error in primates and other mammals using geometric morphometrics in more than 4,000 individuals. Evolutionary Biology, 48: 190–220. DOI: 10.1007/s11692-021-09531-3
Cardini A., 2020. Less tautology, more biology? A comment on “high-density” morphometrics. Zoomorphology, 134: 149–163. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00435-020-00499-w
Cardini A., 2020. Modern morphometrics and the study of population differences: good data behind clever analyses and cool pictures? Anatomical Record, 303: 2747–2765. DOI: 10.1002/ar.24397
Cardini A., Polly P.D., 2020. Cross-validated between group PCA scatterplots: a solution to spurious group separation? Evolutionary Biology, 47:85–95. DOI: 10.1007/s11692-020-09494-x
Cardini A., Chiappelli M., 2020. How flat can a horse be? Exploring 2D approximations of 3D crania in equids. Zoology, 139: 125746. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.zool.2020.125746
Cardini A., O’Higgins P., Rohlf F.J., 2019. Seeing distinct groups where there are none: spurious patterns from between-group PCA. Evolutionary Biology, 46:303–316. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11692-019-09487-5
Cardini A., 2019. Craniofacial allometry is a rule in evolutionary radiations of placentals. Evolutionary Biology, 46:239–248. DOI: 10.1007/s11692-019-09477-7
Galimberti A., Sanvito S., Vinesi M.C., Cardini A., 2019. 'Nose-metrics' of wild southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) males using image analysis and geometric morphometrics. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research , 57: 710-720.. https://doi.org/10.1111/jzs.12276
Cardini A., 2019. Integration and modularity in Procrustes shape data: is there a risk of spurious results? Evolutionary Biology , 46:90–105. DOI 10.1007/s11692-018-9463-x
Noble J., Cardini A., Flavel A., Franklin D., 2018. Geometric morphometrics on juvenile crania: exploring age and sex variation in an Australian population. Forensic Science International , 294: 57–68
Daboul A., Ivanovska T., Bülow R., Biffar R., Cardini A., 2018. Procrustes-based geometric morphometrics on MRI images: An example of inter-operator bias in 3D landmarks and its impact on big datasets. PLOS ONE , 13:e0197675. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0197675
Cardini A., Elton S. Is there a 'Wainer's rule'? Testing which sex varies most as an example analysis using GueSDat, the free Guenon Skull Database. Hystrix , 28(2): 147–156 doi:10.4404/hystrix-28.2-12139 CLICK HERE FOR THE DATABASE
Tamagnini D., Meloro C., Cardini A., 2017. Anyone with a long-face? Craniofacial evolutionary allometry (CREA) in a family of short-faced mammals, the Felidae. Evolutionary Biology , 44: 476–495. DOI 10.1007/s11692-017-9421-z
Fontaneto D., Panisi M., Mandrioli M., Montardi D., Pavesi M., Cardini A., 2017. Estimating the magnitude of morphoscapes: how to measure the morphological component of biodiversity in relation to habitats using geometric morphometrics. The Science of Nature , 104: 55. DOI 10.1007/s00114-017-1475-3
Baiocco M., Bonato L., Cardini A., Fusco G., 2017 Shape variation of prey-catching structures in geophilomorph centipedes: a preliminary investigation using geometric morphometrics. Zoologischer Anzeiger , 268: 11–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2017.04.010
Cardini A. 2017 - Left, right or both? Estimating and improving accuracy of one-side-only geometric morphometric analyses of cranial variation. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research , 55: 1--10; suppl. info and data: http://tinyurl.com/gn5qmgv DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12144
Cardini A. 2016 - Lost in the other half: improving accuracy in geometric morphometric analyses of one side of bilaterally symmetric structures. Systematic Biology , 65: 1096–1106. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syw043 ; data DOI:10.5061/dryad.mr2mh
Seetah K., Cardini A., Barker G., 2016 - The long-fuse domestication of the horse. The Holocene , 26(8) 1326-1333. DOI: 10.1177/0959683616638436
Pearson A., Groves C., Cardini A. 2015 - The temporal effect in hominids: reinvestigating the nature of support for a chimp-human clade in bone morphology . Journal of Human Evolution , in press. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.06.012
Cardini et al. 2015 - Why the long face? Kangaroos and wallabies follow the same 'rule' of cranial evolutionary allometry (CREA) as placentals. Evolutionary Biology , 42: 169-176. DOI: 10.1007/s11692-015-9308-9
Cardini A., Seetah K., Barker G., 2015 - How many specimens do I need? Sampling error in geometric morphometrics: testing the sensitivity of means and variances in simple randomized selection experiments . Zoomorphology , 134: 149–163. DOI: 10.1007/s00435-015-0253-z
Cardini A., 2014 - Missing the third dimension in geometric morphometrics: how to assess if 2D images really are a good proxy for 3D structures? Hystrix , 25: 73-81. DOI:10.4404/hystrix-25.2-10993
Franklin D., Cardini A. et al., 2014 - Morphometric analysis of pelvic sexual dimorphism in a contemporary Western Australian population. International Journal of Legal Medicine. International Journal of Legal Medicine ,128: 861-872. DOI 10.1007/s00414-014-0999-8
Chiozzi G., Bardelli G., Ricci M., De Marchi G., Cardini A., 2014 - Just another island dwarf? Phenotypic distinctiveness in the poorly known Soemmerring’s Gazelle, Nanger soemmerringii (Cetartiodactyla: Bovidae), of Dahlak Kebir Island. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society , 111: 603–620. DOI: 10.1111/bij.12239
Evteev A., Cardini A., Morozova I., O’Higgins P. 2014. Extreme climate rather than population history explains mid facial morphology among Northern Asians. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 153: 449–462. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22444
Cardini A., Polly P.D. 2013 - Larger mammals have longer faces because of size-related constraints on skull form. Nature Communications , 4, art. 2458: 1-7.
Dunn J., Cardini A., Elton S. 2013 - Biogeographic Variation in the Baboon: Dissecting the Cline. Journal of Anatomy , 223: 337–352. DOI: 10.1111/joa.12085.
Franklin D., Cardini A., Flavel A., Kuliukas A, 2013 - Estimation of sex from cranial measurements in a Western Australian population. Forensic Science International , 229:158.e1–158.e8. DOI 10.1007/s00414-012-0772-9 - link to ERRATUM
Cardini A., Loy A, 2013 - On growth and form in the 'computer era': from geometric to biological morphometrics. Hystrix , 24: 1-5. DOI: 10.4404/hystrix-24.1-8749.
Cagnacci F., Cardini et al., 2013 - Less is more: survival guide for scientific research in times of economic crisis. Hystrix , 23: 1-7. DOI: 10.4404/hystrix-23.2-8737.
Ferretti A., Cardini A., et al, 2013 - Rings without a Lord? Enigmatic fossils from the lower Palaeozoic of Bohemia and the Carnic Alps. Lethaia , in press: DOI: 10.1111/let.12004.
Franklin D., Cardini A., Flavel A., Kuliukas A., Marks M.K., Hart R., Oxnard C., O’Higgins P., 2013 - Concordance of traditional osteometric and volume rendered MSCT interlandmark cranial measurements. International Journal of Legal Medicine , in press: DOI: 10.1007/s00414-012-0772-9. DATA: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BxZeFy3y3MEpN3hnaTljUU5aZ00/edit?usp=sharing
Evin A., Cucchi T., Cardini A., et al. 2013 - The long and winding road: Identifying pig domestication through molar size and shape. Journal of Archaeological Science , http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.08.005
Cardini A., Dunn J., O'Higgins P., Elton S. 2013 - Clines in Africa: does size vary in the same way among widespread Sub-Saharan monkeys? Journal of Biogeography , 40: 370–381. DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02783.x.
Franklin D., Cardini A., Flavel A., Kuliukas A. 2012 - The application of traditional and geometric morphometric analyses for forensic quantification of sexual dimorphism: preliminary investigations in a Western Australian population. International Journal of Legal Medicine , 126: 549–558.
Franklin D., Flavel A., Kuliukas A., Cardini A., Marks M.K., Oxnard C., O’Higgins P., 2012 - Estimation of sex from sternal measurements in a Western Australian population. Forensic Science International , 217: 230.e1–230.e5.
Seetah K., Cardini A., Miracle P., 2011 - Cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) population dynamics from Romualdova pecina and Vindija, Croatia: can morphospace shed light on spatial-temporal variation? Journal of Archaeological Science , 39: 500-510.
Viscosi V., Cardini A., 2011 - Leaves, taxonomy and geometric morphometrics: a simplified protocol for beginners . PLoS ONE 6(10): e25630. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0025630 DATA: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0025630#s5 ORIGINAL PICS (if the link does not work, please get in touch and I'll send you the data): download, rename extension as .ZIP and decompress
Kovarovic K., Aiello L.C., Cardini A., Lockwood C.A., 2011 - Discriminant function analyses in archaeology: are classification rates too good to be true? Journal of Archaeological Science , 38: 3006-3018.
Cardini A., Elton S., 2011 - GeMBiD, a ‘Geometric morphometric approach to the study of biological diversity': an example study from the red colobus species complex . International Journal of Primatology , 32: 377–389.
Adams D.C., Cardini A., Monteiro L.R., O’Higgins P., Rohlf F.J., 2011 - Morphometrics and Phylogenetics: principal components of shape from cranial modules are neither appropriate nor effective cladistic characters. Journal of Human Evolution , 60: 240–243.
Elton S., Dunn J., Cardini A., 2010 - Clines in vervet monkey skull morphology: investigating the effects of allometry on taxonomic variation. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society , 101: 823–843.
S anfilippo P., Cardini A., Sigal I.A., Ruddle J., Chua B., Hewitt A., Mackey D.A, 2010 - Geometric Morphometric Assessment of the Optic Cup in Glaucoma. Experimental Eye Research , 91: 405-414.
F ranklin D., Cardini A., Oxnard C. E., 2010 - A Geometric Morphometric Study of Population Variation in Indigenous sub-Saharan African Crania. American Journal of Human Biology , 22: 23-3.
Nagorsen D., Cardini A., 2009. Tempo and mode of evolutionary divergence in modern and Holocene Vancouver Island marmots ( Marmota vancouverensis ) (Mammalia, Rodentia). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research , 47: 258–267.
Sanfilippo P., Cardini A., Mackey D., Hewitt A., Crowston J. 2009 - Optic disc morphology - rethinking shape. Progress in Retinal and Eye Research , 28: 227-248.
G entilli A., Cardini A., Fontaneto D., Zuffi M.A.L., 2009 - The phylogenetic signal in cranial morphology of Vipera aspis: a contribution from geometric morphometrics. Herpetological Journal , 19: 69-77.
Cardini A., Nagorsen D., O’Higgins P., Polly P. D., Thorington Jr R. W., Tongiorgi P., 2009 - Detecting biological uniqueness using geometric morphometrics: an example case from the Vancouver Island marmot . Ecology, Ethology and Evolution , 21: 209-223 .
C ardini A., Elton S., 2009 - The radiation of red colobus monkeys (Primates, Colobinae): morphological evolution in a clade of endangered African primates. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society , 157: 197–224.
Cardini A., Elton S., 2009 - Geographic and taxonomic influences on cranial variation in red colobus monkeys (Primates, Colobinae): introducing a new approach to ‘morph’ monkeys. Global Ecology and Biogeography , 18: 248–263.
Nowak K., Cardini A., Elton S., 2008 - Evolutionary acceleration in an endangered African primate: speciation and divergence in the Zanzibar Red Colobus (Primates, Colobinae). International Journal of Primatology , 29: 1313-1339.
Franklin D., Cardini A., O’Higgins P., Oxnard C. E., Dadour I., 2008 - Mandibular morphology as an indicator of human subadult age: geometric morphometric approaches. Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology , 4: 91–99.
Cardini A., Elton S., 2008 - Variation in guenon skulls I: species divergence, ecological and genetic differences. Journal of Human Evolution , 54: 615-637.
Cardini A., Elton S., 2008 - Variation in guenon skulls II: sexual dimorphism. Journal of Human Evolution , 54: 638-647.
Cardini A., Elton S., 2008 - Does the skull carry a phylogenetic signal? Evolution and modularity and in the guenons. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society , 93: 813–834.
Cardini A., Elton S., 2007 - Sample size and sampling error in geometric morphometric studies of size and shape. Zoomorphology , 126: 121-134. (Listed as one of the 10 most downloaded papers in Zoomorphology in 2009 and 2010).
Franklin D., Cardini A., 2007 - Mandibular Morphology as an Indicator of Human Subadult Age: Interlandmark Approaches. Journal of Forensic Sciences , 52: 1015-1019.
Cardini A, Thorington Jr. R. W., P. D. Polly, 2007 - Evolutionary acceleration in the most endangered mammal of Canada: phylogenetic signal and cranial divergence in the Vancouver Island marmot (Rodentia, Sciuridae). Journal of Evolutionary Biology , 20: 1833-1846.
Cardini A., Jansson A-U., Elton S., 2007 - Ecomorphology of vervet monkeys: a geometric morphometric approach to the study of clinal variation. Journal of Biogeography , 34: 1663-1678 .
C ardini A., Thorington Jr. R. W., 2006 - Post-natal ontogeny of the marmot (Rodentia, Sciuridae) cranium: allometric trajectories and species divergence. Journal of Mammalogy , 87: 201-216.
Cardini A., O’Higgins P., 2005 - Post-natal ontogeny of the mandible and ventral cranium in Marmota (Rodentia, Sciuridae): allometry, epigenetics and phylogeny. Zoomorphology , 124: 189-203.
Cardini A, Hoffmann R. S., Thorington Jr. R. W., 2005 - Morphological evolution in marmots (Rodentia, Sciuridae): size and shape of the dorsal and lateral surfaces of the cranium. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research , 43: 258-268.
Cardini A., Ferraguti M., 2004 - The phylogeny of Branchiobdellida (Annelida, Clitellata) assessed by sperm characters. Zoologischer Anzeiger , 243: 37-46.
Cardini A., 2004 - Evolution of marmots (Rodentia, Sciuridae): combining information on labial and lingual sides of the mandible. Acta Theriologica , 49: 301-318.
Cardini A., O’Higgins P., 2004 - Patterns of morphological evolution in Marmota (Rodentia, Sciuridae): geometric morphometrics of the cranium in the context of marmot phylogeny, ecology and conservation. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society , 82: 385-407.
Cardini A., Slice D. E., 2004 - Mandibular shape in the genus Marmota (Rodentia, Sciuridae): a preliminary analysis using outlines. Italian Journal of Zoology , 71: 17-25.
Fontaneto D., Melone G., Cardini A., 2004 - Geometric morphometrics study of the jaws in microscopic aquatic pseudocoelomates: shape diversity in the trophy of different species of Rotaria (Rotifera, Bdelloidea). Italian Journal of Zoology , 71: 63-72.
Cardini A., 2003 - The geometry of marmot (Rodentia: Sciuridae) mandible: phylogeny and patterns of morphological evolution. Systematic Biology , 52: 186-205.
Cardini A., Tongiorgi P., 2003 - Yellow-bellied marmots ‘in the shape space’: sexual dimorphism, growth and allometry of the mandible. Zoomorphology , 122: 11-23.
Cardini A., Ferraguti M., Gelder S. R., 2000 - A phylogenetic assessment of the branchiobdellidan family Branchiobdellidae (Annelida, Clitellata) using spermatological and somatic characters. Zoologica Scripta , 29: 347-366.
B ook chapters and scientific Communications
Cardini A., Chiozzi G. 2016. Piracy strikes back on Lake Maggiore: first report of Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) kleptoparasitizing Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus). Research in Ornithology - Rivista Italiana di Ornitologia, in press.
P olly, P.D., Cardini A., Davis E.B., Steppan S. 2015 - Marmot evolution and global change in the past 10 million years. Pp. 246-276 in P. G. Cox and L. Hautier (eds.), Evolution of the Rodents: Advances in Phylogeny, Palaeontology and Functional Morphology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Cardini A. 2013 - Geometric Morphometrics. UNESCO Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems. PREPRINT on request.
Cardini A., Elton S., 2008 (published in March 2010) - GeMBiD, a ‘Geometric morphometric approach to the study of biological diversity'. Endangered Species Update , 25(3).
C ardini A., Diniz Filho J. A. F., Polly P. D., Elton S., 2010 - Biogeographic analysis using geometric morphometrics: clines in skull size and shape in a widespread African arboreal monkey. A. M. T. Elewa (Ed.), Morphometrics for Nonmorphometricians, Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences 124, Springer-Verlag Publishers, Heidelberg, Germany. DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-95853-6_8 .
Elton S., Cardini A., 2009 - Anthropology from the desk? The challenges of the emerging era of data sharing. Journal of Anthropological Sciences , 86: 209-212.
Cardini A., Hoffmann R. S., O’Higgins P., Sala L., Thorington Jr R. W., Tongiorgi P., 2008 - Evolutionary patterns of Marmota : 2D and 3D geometric morphometrics of the mandible and cranium. In: E. A. Bikova, A. V. Esipov, Vashetko (Eds), Proceedings of the V International Conference on genus Marmota .
Ferraguti M., Cardini A., 2006 - Lo studio delle forme dei viventi e l’evoluzionismo. Treccani Scuola.
Cardini A., Tintori A., Cattaneo C., Lazzaro A., Di Giancamillo M., 2004 - Sissi: from the Italian Alps the first marmot natural mummy. In: R. Ramousse, D. Allaine, M. Le Berre (Eds), Proceedings of the IV Marmot World Conference, pp. 73-75.
Cardini A., Tongiorgi P., Sala L., O’Higgins P., 2004 - Skull form and evolution in Marmota (Rodentia, Sciuridae). In: R. Ramousse, D. Allaine, M. Le Berre (Eds), Proceedings of the IV Marmot World Conference, pp. 67-72.
Cardini A., 2002 - Mandibole e geometria: può lo studio della forma aiutare a comprendere l’evoluzione delle marmotte? Accademia Nazionale di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti di Modena, Atti e Memorie, ser. VIII, vol. IV: 767-811.
Unpublished (letters to journals etc.)
Cardini A., 2019. The pangolin is not the culprit and species do not make invasion.
Cardini A., 2019. AAAS travels on all 7 continents despite global climate change.
Cardini A., 2018. Plan B for plan S.
Cardini A., 2018. Critique paywalls but don't forget the pitfalls of OA.
Cardini A., 2014. “Uprooting researchers” can make them better scientists.