ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2020
Correlated and decoupled evolution of adult and larval body size in frogs.
Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
16 citing papers in PubMed.
- Article
- Beyond species ranges: How functional diversity and integrated life history can inform conservation priorities.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Biodiversity conservation requires consideration of different life history stages.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Ultrastructural Characteristics of the Juvenile Chum Salmon (International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Urban developmental environments alter tadpole phenotypes depending on origin.The Journal of animal ecology · 2025Article
- Olfactory cues elicit species-specific locomotive responses in poison frog tadpoles.microPublication biology · 2025Article
- Article
- Shape Evolution in Two Acts: Morphological Diversity of Larval and Adult Neoaustraranan Frogs.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Genetic independence between traits separated by metamorphosis is widespread but varies with biological function.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Ornamented species incur higher male mortality in the larval stage.Biology letters · 2023Article
- The impacts of linear infrastructure on terrestrial vertebrate populations: A trait-based approach.Global change biology · 2022Article
- The evolution of reproductive modes and life cycles in amphibians.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Transcriptomic evidence for visual adaptation during the aquatic to terrestrial metamorphosis in leopard frogs.BMC biology · 2022Article
- Juvenile ecology drives adult morphology in two insect orders.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Size, microhabitat, and loss of larval feeding drive cranial diversification in frogs.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Larval habitats impose trait-dependent limits on the direction and rate of adult evolution in dragonflies.Biology letters · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The majority of animal species have complex life cycles, in which larval stages may have very different morphologies and ecologies relative to adults. Anurans (frogs) provide a particularly striking example. However, the extent to which larval and adult morphologies (e.g. body size) are correlated among species has not been broadly tested in any major group. Recent studies have suggested that larval and adult morphology are evolutionarily decoupled in frogs, but focused within families and did not compare the evolution of body sizes. Here, we test for correlated evolution of adult and larval body size across 542 species from 42 families, including most families with a tadpole stage. We find strong phylogenetic signal in larval and adult body sizes, and find that both traits are significantly and positively related across frogs. However, this relationship varies dramatically among clades, from strongly positive to weakly negative. Furthermore, rates of evolution for both variables are largely decoupled among clades. Thus, some clades have high rates of adult body-size evolution but low rates in tadpole body size (and vice versa). Overall, we show for the first time that body sizes are generally related between adult and larval stages across a major group, even as evolutionary rates of larval and adult size are largely decoupled among species and clades.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What Socratic holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.