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Digest: A decoupling between size and shape in Indo‐Pacific shore fishes *
Author(s) -
HerreraÁlvarez Santiago
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
evolution
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.84
H-Index - 199
eISSN - 1558-5646
pISSN - 0014-3820
DOI - 10.1111/evo.13822
Subject(s) - biology , shore , decoupling (probability) , fish <actinopterygii> , indo pacific , body proportions , zoology , fishery , ecology , evolutionary biology , geometry , mathematics , control engineering , engineering
To what extent has body size driven body shape disparity across fish species? Friedman et al. found that for Indo‐Pacific shore fishes, body size accounts for a low fraction of variation, suggesting that there is a very weak relationship between body size and shape in this group.