The impact of paleoclimatic changes on body size evolution in marine fishes

Phanerozoic paleotemperatures: The earth’s changing climate during the last 540 million years

(2021) Christopher R. Scotese et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Phylogenomics and Historical Biogeography of Seahorses, Dragonets, Goatfishes, and Allies (Teleostei: Syngnatharia): Assessing Factors Driving Uncertainty in Biogeographic Inferences

(2021) Aintzane Santaquiteria et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Biodiversity across space and time in the fossil record

(2021) Roger B.J. Benson et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Macroecology and macroevolution of body size in Anolis lizards

(2020) Julián A. Velasco et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Body size, sampling completeness, and extinction risk in the marine fossil record

(2020) Jonathan L. Payne et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Temperature-related body size change of marine benthic macroinvertebrates across the Early Toarcian Anoxic Event

(2020) Veronica Piazza et al.   Scientific Reports

Exon probe sets and bioinformatics pipelines for all levels of fish phylogenomics

(2020) Lily C. Hughes et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Evolutionary determinism and convergence associated with water-column transitions in marine fishes

(2020) Melissa Rincon-Sandoval et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The genomic timeline of cichlid fish diversification across continents

(2020) Michael Matschiner et al.   Nature Communications

Temperature variation makes an ectotherm more sensitive to global warming unless thermal evolution occurs

(2019) Julie Verheyen et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Altitudinal variation in body size in Bufo minshanicus supports Bergmann’s rule

(2019) Tong Lei Yu et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Establishing the link between Permian volcanism and biodiversity changes: Insights from geochemical proxies

(2019) Jun Chen et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Greater vulnerability to warming of marine versus terrestrial ectotherms

(2019) Malin L. Pinsky et al.   NATURE

Cope's Rule in a modular organism: Directional evolution without an overarching macroevolutionary trend

(2019) Lee Hsiang Liow et al.   EVOLUTION

Paleobiology and taphonomy of the pycnodont fish Nursallia gutturosum, based on material from the Latest-Cenomanian-middle Turonian Vallecillo platy limestone, Mexico

(2019) Eva Susanne Stinnesbeck et al.   Palaeontologische Zeitschrift

The multi-peak adaptive landscape of crocodylomorph body size evolution

(2019) Pedro L. Godoy et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The fiddler crab, Minuca pugnax , follows Bergmann's rule

(2019) David Samuel Johnson et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Southern Ocean Mesopelagic Fish Comply with Bergmann’s Rule

(2018) Ryan A. Saunders et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Latitudinal variation in body size in Fejervarya limnocharis supports the inverse of Bergmann’s rule

(2018) Qiao Liu et al.   ANIMAL BIOLOGY

Toward a general explanation for latitudinal clines in body size among chelonians

(2018) Jessica Santilli et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

ASTRAL-III: polynomial time species tree reconstruction from partially resolved gene trees

(2018) Chao Zhang et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Temperature-dependent oxygen limitation and the rise of Bergmann's rule in species with aquatic respiration

(2018) Njal Rollinson et al.   EVOLUTION

The Bolca Lagerstätten: shallow marine life in the Eocene

(2018) Matt Friedman et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Comprehensive phylogeny of ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii) based on transcriptomic and genomic data

(2018) Lily C. Hughes et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Explosive diversification of marine fishes at the Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary

(2018) Michael E. Alfaro et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Shallow water ray-finned marine fishes follow Bergmann’s rule

(2018) Felipe Fernández-Torres et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

An interspecific test of Bergmann's rule reveals inconsistent body size patterns across several lineages of water beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

(2018) Susana Pallarés et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Body size evolution in an old insect order: No evidence for Cope's Rule in spite of fitness benefits of large size

(2017) John T. Waller et al.   EVOLUTION

On the causes of mass extinctions

(2017) David P.G. Bond et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Accelerated body size evolution during cold climatic periods in the Cenozoic

(2017) Julien Clavel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Extinction risk is most acute for the world’s largest and smallest vertebrates

(2017) William J. Ripple et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mass extinction in tetraodontiform fishes linked to the Palaeocene–Eocene thermal maximum

(2017) Dahiana Arcila et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Genomic Signature of an Avian Lilliput Effect across the K-Pg Extinction

(2017) Jacob S. Berv et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Bergmann's rule in the oceans? Temperature strongly correlates with global interspecific patterns of body size in marine mammals

(2016) Erik Joaquín Torres-Romero et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Bergmann's rule: a biophysiological rule examined in birds

(2016) Volker Salewski et al.   OIKOS

The Influence of Paleoclimate on Present-Day Patterns in Biodiversity and Ecosystems

(2015) Jens-Christian Svenning et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

An evaluation of fossil tip-dating versus node-age calibrations in tetraodontiform fishes (Teleostei: Percomorphaceae)

(2015) Dahiana Arcila et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Cope's rule in the evolution of marine animals

(2015) N. A. Heim et al.   SCIENCE

Body-size reduction in vertebrates following the end-Devonian mass extinction

(2015) Lauren Sallan et al.   SCIENCE

Testing for Depéret's Rule (Body Size Increase) in Mammals using Combined Extinct and Extant Data

(2015) Folmer Bokma et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Bergmann's Rule rules body size in an ectotherm: heat conservation in a lizard along a 2200-metre elevational gradient

(2014) F. J. Zamora-Camacho et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

IQ-TREE: A Fast and Effective Stochastic Algorithm for Estimating Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies

(2014) Lam-Tung Nguyen et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Competition and constraint drove Cope's rule in the evolution of giant flying reptiles

(2014) Roger B. J. Benson et al.   Nature Communications

A new phylogeny of tetraodontiform fishes (Tetraodontiformes, Acanthomorpha) based on 22 loci

(2013) Francesco Santini et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Phylogeny and tempo of diversification in the superradiation of spiny-rayed fishes

(2013) T. J. Near et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Warming-induced reductions in body size are greater in aquatic than terrestrial species

(2012) J. Forster et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Late Cretaceous–Neogene trends in deep ocean temperature and continental ice volume: Reconciling records of benthic foraminiferal geochemistry (δ18O and Mg/Ca) with sea level history

(2011) B. S. Cramer et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

(2011) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Bergmann's Rule - what's in a name?

(2010) Shai Meiri   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Climate-driven body-size trends in the ostracod fauna of the deep Indian Ocean

(2010) GENE HUNT et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Fossils provide better estimates of ancestral body size than do extant taxa in fishes

(2009) James S. Albert et al.   ACTA ZOOLOGICA

Bergmann's rule; a concept cluster?

(2009) Cortney Watt et al.   OIKOS

The Relative Importance of Body Size and Paleoclimatic Change as Explanatory Variables Influencing Lineage Diversification Rate: An Evolutionary Analysis of Bullhead Catfishes (Siluriformes: Ictaluridae)

(2008) Michael Hardman et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY