Journal
GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 30, Issue 2, Pages 461-469Publisher
SOC BRASIL GENETICA
DOI: 10.1590/S1415-47572007000300027
Keywords
covariance matrix; common principal components; random skewers; New World monkeys; quantitative genetics
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Comparisons of covariance patterns are becoming more common as interest in the evolution of relationships between traits and in the evolutionary phenotypic diversification of clades have grown. We present parallel analyses of covariance matrix similarity for cranial traits in 14 New World Monkey genera using the Random Skewers (RS), T-statistics, and Common Principal Components (CPC) approaches. We find that the CPC approach is very powerful in that with adequate sample sizes, it can be used to detect significant differences in matrix structure, even between matrices that are virtually identical in their evolutionary properties, as indicated by the RS results. We suggest that in many instances the assumption that population covariance matrices are identical be rejected out of hand. The more interesting and relevant question is, How similar are two covariance matrices with respect to their predicted evolutionary responses? This issue is addressed by the random skewers method described here.
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