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ArticleEvolutionary applications2025

Road Mortality Contributes to the Evolution of an Urban-Rural Cline in Squirrel Coat Color.

Adam F Parlin, Bradley J Cosentino, Richard M Lehtinen, John E McDonald, Emma C C Sinclair, James P Gibbs

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Article in Evolutionary applications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Adam F ParlinDepartment of Environmental Biology State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry Syracuse New York USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0896-8051
Bradley J CosentinoDepartment of Biology Hobart & William Smith Colleges Geneva New York USA.
Richard M LehtinenDepartment of Biology The College of Wooster Wooster Ohio USA.
John E McDonaldDepartment of Environmental Science Westfield State University Westfield Massachusetts USA.
Emma C C SinclairDepartment of Biology Queen's University Kingston Ontario Canada.
James P GibbsDepartment of Environmental Biology State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry Syracuse New York USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cities impose unique selection pressures on wildlife and generate clines in phenotypic traits along urban-rural gradients. Roads are a widespread feature of human-dominated landscapes and are known to cause direct wildlife mortality; however, whether they act as a selective force influencing phenotypic trait variation along urban-rural gradients remains unclear. This study tested the hypothesis that roads influence natural selection of coat color in the eastern gray squirrel (

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adaptive evolutionanimal colorcitizen sciencenatural selectionphenotypic variationroad ecologyroadkillurban evolutionurbanization

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PMID40395440
PMCPMC12089062

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