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SUBMITTER: Durst PA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4590469 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Durst Paul A P PA Roth V Louise VL
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20150701 1810
The tendency for island populations of mammalian taxa to diverge in body size from their mainland counterparts consistently in particular directions is both impressive for its regularity and, especially among rodents, troublesome for its exceptions. However, previous studies have largely ignored mainland body size variation, treating size differences of any magnitude as equally noteworthy. Here, we use distributions of mainland population body sizes to identify island populations as 'extremely' ...[more]