title: Response to Packard: make sure we do not throw out the biological baby with the statistical bath water when performing allometric analyses.
authors.affiliation: Université de Lyon, F-69000 Lyon; Université Lyon 1; CNRS, UMR5558, Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France jean-francois.lemaitre@univ-lyon1.fr.
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Lemaître
authors.affiliation: Université de Lyon, F-69000 Lyon; Université Lyon 1; CNRS, UMR5558, Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Vanpé
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Plard
authors.affiliation: Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics, Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pélabon
authors.affiliation: Université de Lyon, F-69000 Lyon; Université Lyon 1; CNRS, UMR5558, Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Gaillard
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000999:Antlers / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D049628:Body Size; D003670:Deer / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000502:physiology*