The applicability of Allen’s rule in rodents

What is it about?

We test if Allen's rule--a biogeographic pattern of increased relative appendage size with increased temperature--applies to rodents globally. We find support for this pattern only in the tail, but not for the hind foot or the ear.

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Why is it important?

We used the latest molecular phylogeny dataset available (a sample of trees) along with the largest morphometric dataset to date and up-to-date phylogenetic comparative methods and spatial methods to test this pattern.

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