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When Rensch meets Foster: insular gigantism may reduce sexual dimorphism in anurans

Frédéric Robin
Marko Jankovic
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Vincent Lelong
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Simon Baudouin
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According to the Island rule, insular populations exhibit gigantism in small species and dwarfism in large species. These contexts offer opportunities to test for complementary aspects pertaining to the evolution of body size, and particularly sexual size dimorphism (SSD). 'Rensch's rule' states that SSD should vary with increasing body size, depending on the larger sex. As a consequence, it is expected that dwarfism or gigantism occurring in insular populations should influence the magnitude of SSD. Using anuran amphibians as a study system (because most anuran species express a female-biased SSD and a marked lability in size), we investigated our hypothesis both in a specific comparison of continental and insular populations of a widespread coastal amphibian, and using a large-scale analysis across anurans (10 species across 62 sites). Both datasets yielded similar results, with increasing body size in insular populations reducing the magnitude of SSD through an increase of male body size, as expected by Rensch's rule. Detailed data on insular populations considering both sexes are scarce, and future studies are required to complement the existing literature in order to test for the validity of our hypothesis at a wider scale and to infer the mechanistic causes of size variations, which remain unknown. In addition, further investigations are required to explore the consequences of insularity on the magnitude of SSD including various taxa (e.g. mammals, birds, lizards and snakes) in which the Island rule has found support, and considering taxa in which males are the larger sex.
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Léa Lorrain‐soligon, Frédéric Robin, Marko Jankovic, Vincent Lelong, Simon Baudouin, et al.. When Rensch meets Foster: insular gigantism may reduce sexual dimorphism in anurans. Oikos, 2023, e09947, ⟨10.1111/oik.09947⟩. ⟨hal-04071185⟩
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