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Variation in brown rat cranial shape shows directional selection over 120 years in New York City.
Article in Ecology and evolution, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Body size and cranial shape differentiation in urban and rural house mice (bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Sexual Shape Variation and Allometric Effects in Guinea Pig (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Computational Urban Ecology of New York City Rats.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Morphological change in an isolated population of red squirrels (Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Moving past the challenges and misconceptions in urban adaptation research.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- The relevance of genetic structure in ecotype designation and conservation management.Evolutionary applications · 2022Article
- Variation in brown rat cranial shape shows directional selection over 120 years in New York City.Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
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Abstract
Urbanization exposes species to novel environments and selection pressures that may change morphological traits within a population. We investigated how the shape and size of crania and mandibles changed over time within a population of brown rats (
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