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Digest: The role of intra‐ and interspecific behavior in habitat use evolution *
Author(s) -
Zak Vanessa
Publication year - 2020
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.13913
Subject(s) - biology , habitat , interspecific competition , sexual dimorphism , breed , ecology , zoology
Cycloramphus and Zachaenus Neotropical frogs breed in rocky streams (saxicolous breeding) or in terrestrial environments. In their recent work, de Sá et al. investigate shifts between these habitats and the impact that these shifts have on body size and sexual size dimorphism (SSD). The researchers found that terrestrial breeding evolved on three occasions. Additionally, there was an association between habitat and SSD, with decreases in male body size correlating with shifts toward terrestrial breeding.

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