Description

Cetaceans' body and brain mass, and phylogenetic tree (Serio et al. 2019).

Usage

Format

A list containing:

treecet

Cetaceans phylogenetic tree

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masscet

numeric vector of cetaceans body masses (ln g)

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brainmasscet

numeric vector of cetaceans brain masses (ln g)

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aceMyst

body mass (ln g) for Mystacodon selenensis, used as node prior at the ancestor of the Mysticeti

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Author(s)

Pasquale Raia, Silvia Castiglione, Carmela Serio, Alessandro Mondanaro, Marina Melchionna, Mirko Di Febbraro, Antonio Profico, Francesco Carotenuto

References

Serio, C., Castiglione, S., Tesone, G., Piccolo, M., Melchionna, M., Mondanaro, A., Di Febbraro, M., & Raia, P. (2019). Macroevolution of Toothed Whales Exceptional Relative Brain Size. Evolutionary Biology, 46: 332-342. doi:10.1007/s11692-019-09485-7