Carnivores, biases and Bergmann's rule

Bergmanns rule in mammals: a cross-species interspecific pattern

Although Bergmann’s rule – stating that among closely related species, the bigger ones will inhabit the colder climates/higher latitudes – was formulated for inter-specific comparisons, most analyses that tested this pattern in mammals were on an intra-specific level. To date, no large-scale taxonomydriven cross-species evaluation of the pattern predicted by Bergmann exists. Here we show, in a ...

Bergmanns rule in mammals: a cross-species interspecific pattern

Although Bergmann’s rule – stating that among closely related species, the bigger ones will inhabit the colder climates/higher latitudes – was formulated for inter-specific comparisons, most analyses that tested this pattern in mammals were on an intra-specific level. To date, no large-scale taxonomydriven cross-species evaluation of the pattern predicted by Bergmann exists. Here we show, in a ...

Carnivores

of CFTR-Dependent Fluid Secretion Michel Bagnat,* Adam Navis, Sara Herbstreith, Koroboshka Brand-Arzamendi, Silvia Curado, Sherif Gabriel, Keith Mostov, Jan Huisken, and Didier Y.R. Stainier* (Current Biology 20, 1840–1845; October 26, 2010) In the text and in Figure 3A of this article, we refer to chromosome 12/LG12. This is incorrect; chromosome 12 in the text and LG12 in Figure 3A should ref...

Body size of insular carnivores: little support for the island rule.

Large mammals are thought to evolve to be smaller on islands, whereas small mammals grow larger. A negative correlation between relative size of island individuals and body mass is termed the "island rule." Several mechanisms--mainly competitive release, resource limitation, dispersal ability, and lighter predation pressure on islands, as well as a general physiological advantage of modal size-...

Social carnivores outperform asocial carnivores on an innovative problem