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Morphological Variation in Tupaia glis from the East and the West Coast of Peninsular Malaysia

Peninsular Malaysia is primarily divided into east and west coast by the Titiwangsa Range (Oon, 2008; Breemen, 2008). This mountainous and forested area would probably be an effective geographical barrier to the dispersal of small mammals from east and west coast of Peninsular Malaysia. Such barrier...

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Main Author: Nurul Farah Diyana Ahmad Tahir
Format: Undergraduate Final Project Report
Published: 2013
Online Access:http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/6048/
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spelling my.umk.eprints.60482022-05-23T08:44:45Z http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/6048/ Morphological Variation in Tupaia glis from the East and the West Coast of Peninsular Malaysia Nurul Farah Diyana Ahmad Tahir Peninsular Malaysia is primarily divided into east and west coast by the Titiwangsa Range (Oon, 2008; Breemen, 2008). This mountainous and forested area would probably be an effective geographical barrier to the dispersal of small mammals from east and west coast of Peninsular Malaysia. Such barrier can have several consequences on the geographical variation and speciation of widespread mammals as long term isolation can result in morphological variation within species. Thus, in this study, a morphometric approaches is used to investigate the morphological variation of T. glis from the east and west coast of Peninsular Malaysia to understand whether isolating effect of Titiwangsa Range is contributing in the morphological variation in this species. Hence, Discriminant Function Analysis (DFA) is used in order creating the method in identifying the morphological variation of the T. glis samples. From this study, it is found that there are three (3) characteristics of the T. glis which are the HB, SL and C1M3L had the highest discriminant level, and this was reflected by the importance of these characters during the identification process. Besides, there are two main groups of forms were found after the cluster analysis were run on the samples. But the species of the forms are still not identified and confirmed. 2013 Undergraduate Final Project Report NonPeerReviewed Nurul Farah Diyana Ahmad Tahir (2013) Morphological Variation in Tupaia glis from the East and the West Coast of Peninsular Malaysia. Undergraduate Final Project Report thesis, Faculty of Earth Sciences. (Submitted)
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description Peninsular Malaysia is primarily divided into east and west coast by the Titiwangsa Range (Oon, 2008; Breemen, 2008). This mountainous and forested area would probably be an effective geographical barrier to the dispersal of small mammals from east and west coast of Peninsular Malaysia. Such barrier can have several consequences on the geographical variation and speciation of widespread mammals as long term isolation can result in morphological variation within species. Thus, in this study, a morphometric approaches is used to investigate the morphological variation of T. glis from the east and west coast of Peninsular Malaysia to understand whether isolating effect of Titiwangsa Range is contributing in the morphological variation in this species. Hence, Discriminant Function Analysis (DFA) is used in order creating the method in identifying the morphological variation of the T. glis samples. From this study, it is found that there are three (3) characteristics of the T. glis which are the HB, SL and C1M3L had the highest discriminant level, and this was reflected by the importance of these characters during the identification process. Besides, there are two main groups of forms were found after the cluster analysis were run on the samples. But the species of the forms are still not identified and confirmed.
format Undergraduate Final Project Report
author Nurul Farah Diyana Ahmad Tahir
spellingShingle Nurul Farah Diyana Ahmad Tahir
Morphological Variation in Tupaia glis from the East and the West Coast of Peninsular Malaysia
author_facet Nurul Farah Diyana Ahmad Tahir
author_sort Nurul Farah Diyana Ahmad Tahir
title Morphological Variation in Tupaia glis from the East and the West Coast of Peninsular Malaysia
title_short Morphological Variation in Tupaia glis from the East and the West Coast of Peninsular Malaysia
title_full Morphological Variation in Tupaia glis from the East and the West Coast of Peninsular Malaysia
title_fullStr Morphological Variation in Tupaia glis from the East and the West Coast of Peninsular Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Morphological Variation in Tupaia glis from the East and the West Coast of Peninsular Malaysia
title_sort morphological variation in tupaia glis from the east and the west coast of peninsular malaysia
publishDate 2013
url http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/6048/
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