monkeys {PhylogeneticEM}

New World Monkeys dataset

Description

Morphometric dataset and phylogeny for brain shape variation of 50 species of New World monkeys (platyrrhine).

Usage

monkeys

Format

A list containing two objects:

phy

The Phylogenetic tree for the platyrrhine species, pruned to match the species in the morphometric dataset

dat

First two PC scores from a PCA of the species-averaged Procrustes coordinates

References

Aristide, L., dos Reis, S. F., Machado, A. C., Lima, I., Lopes, R. T. & Perez, S. I. (2016). Brain shape convergence in the adaptive radiation of New World monkeys. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(8), 2158–2163. http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1514473113