I am planning to measure the craniometry of the Philippine native dog so as to have a basis of proof to consider them as mesaticephalic breed of dog.
Some reference you can get from research paper "Morphological and Craniometrical Studies on the Skull of Kagani Goat (Capra hircus) of Jammu Region"
Int. J. Morphol.,
24(3):449-455, 2006
Hi there, yes, see recent article by Paul McGreevy et al. in PLoS One: Dog Behavior Co-Varies with Height, Bodyweight and Skull Shape
Madeleine Geiger from the University of Zurich is also working with the dog cranium and suture closing patterns. Maybe she can help you out:
http://www.pim.uzh.ch/institut/mitarbeitende/index_en.php?show=834
Elaine Ostrander (NIH) and Jeffrey Schoenebeck are doing very interesting work on this.
See, please this thesis: FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE
AN OSTEOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF SOUTHEASTERN
PREHISTORIC DOMESTIC DOGS
By
BRIAN E. WORTHINGTON
A Thesis submitted to the
Department of Anthropology
in partial fulfillment of the
requirements for the degree of
Masters of Science
Degree Awarded:
Summer Semester, 2008
Dear Colleague,
In addition to these answers, please find these two papers by Drake & Klingenberg, describing craniometry in dogs.
With kind regards,
Koos Jaap van Zwieten
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