Johnson D R, O'Higgins P, McAndrew T J
Department of Anatomy, University of Leeds, UK.
J Anat. 1990 Oct;172:213-20.
The effects of four deficient diets (oats, barley, wheat, buckwheat) on the shape of first and second cervical vertebrae and scapulae in C57BL mice have been measured using Fourier analysis. Bone shape was found to be robust, and only minimally affected by dietary change. The significance of this lack of change is discussed in the light of changes induced by diet in non-metrical variants in the skeleton. The study further emphasises the dangers of using certain non-metrical characters in taxonomic studies and indicates that the shapes of mouse bones are affected to a lesser degree by dietary influences than are the incidences of certain non-metrical character states.
利用傅里叶分析测量了四种缺乏营养的饮食（燕麦、大麦、小麦、荞麦）对C57BL小鼠第一和第二颈椎以及肩胛骨形状的影响。发现骨骼形状很稳定，仅受饮食变化的轻微影响。根据饮食引起的骨骼非测量变异所导致的变化，讨论了这种缺乏变化的意义。该研究进一步强调了在分类学研究中使用某些非测量特征的危险性，并表明与某些非测量特征状态的发生率相比，小鼠骨骼形状受饮食影响的程度较小。
