Heart size variation in anurans from China does not follow the Hesse's rule

Yuhan Yuan; Xiaohan Yang; Xinyue Yangli; Yingjian Tian; Ying Jiang; Long Jin

doi:10.1111/1749-4877.12847

Heart size variation in anurans from China does not follow the Hesse's rule

Integr Zool. 2024 May 25. doi: 10.1111/1749-4877.12847. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Yuhan Yuan^{1

2}, Xiaohan Yang^{1

2}, Xinyue Yangli^{1

2}, Yingjian Tian^{1

2

3}, Ying Jiang^{1

2

4}, Long Jin^{1

2

4

3}

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Southwest China Wildlife Resources Conservation (Ministry of Education), China West Normal University, Nanchong, China.
² Key Laboratory of Artificial Propagation and Utilization in Anurans of Nanchong City, China West Normal University, Nanchong, China.
³ College of Panda, China West Normal University, Nanchong, China.
⁴ School of Ecology and Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China.

PMID: 38794909
DOI: 10.1111/1749-4877.12847

Abstract

We failed to dissect the associations between relative heart size and geographical gradients (altitude and latitude) and climatic factors (annual temperature, rainfall, and wind speed) across 116 species, which suggests that heart size variation in anurans did not follow the Hesse's rule.

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