. 2019 Jul 29;17(7):e05758. doi: 10.2903/j.efsa.2019.5758

Table A.1.

Comparison of 10 life‐history traits among bats (order Chiroptera), rodents (order Rodentia, families Muridae and Cricetidae) and shrews (order Soricomorpha, family Soricidae). Data extracted from the AMNIOTE database (Myhrvold, N. P., Baldridge, E., Chan, B., Sivam, D., Freeman, D. L., & Ernest, S. M. (2015). An amniote life‐history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology, 96(11), 3109–3109.). Statistical comparisons were made with a General Linear Model where ‘order’ was used as the main treatment and ‘adult body mass’ as a covariate to adjust for the effects of interspecific differences in body size on life history traits. In the ‘mean’ column, same letters label means that do not differ from one another

Trait	N	mean	SD	Range	F	P
Female sexual maturity (days)
Bats	227	372.9^a	183.3	53.6–831.0
Rodents	433	81.1^b	45.2	23.8–438.9
Shrews	72	210.9^c	122.8	36.0–417.4
body mass					42.2	< 0.001
order					627.7	< 0.001
Male sexual maturity (days)
Bats	127	473.5^a	160.3	98.0–775.8
Rodents	146	76.1^b	37.3	36.0–335.0
Shrews	37	154.8^c	128.3	36.0–365.0
body mass					3.5	n.s.
order					530.8	< 0.001
Litter size (n individuals)
Bats	647	1.2^a	0.4	1.0–3.1
Rodents	783	3.6^b	1.5	1.0–8.9
Shrews	188	4.0^c	1.6	1.0–9.0
body mass					56.7	< 0.001
order					1943.2	< 0.001
Number of litters per year
Bats	378	1.3^a	0.4	0.8–3.0
Rodents	382	3.5^b	1.5	1.0–10.0
Shrews	82	2.7^c	1.6	1.0–9.8
body mass					8.3	< 0.005
order					683.8	< 0.001
Maximum longevity (years)
Bats	263	14.7^a		0.3–41.0
Rodents	491	4.0^b		0.1–13.6
Shrews	98	2.4^c		0.1–4.0
body mass					3.9	0.048
Order					229.7	< 0.001
Duration of gestation (days)
Bats	291	110.2^a	48.0	22.9 – 260.2
Rodents	439	27.0^b	6.5	13.5 – 53.3
Shrews	76	23.6^c	4.3	17.0 – 30.4
body mass					64.4	< 0.001
Order					1863.5	< 0.001
Days till weaning
Bats	264	66.9^a	59.1	15.0–668.8
Rodents	437	24.1^b	7.6	11.8–68.7
Shrews	71	23.6^c	4.2	17.3–41.5
body mass					125.7	< 0.001
Order					491.2	< 0.001
Birth/adult body mass (g)
Bats	285	0.2^a	0.1	0.0–0.5
Rodents	388	0.1^b	0.0	0.0–0.2
Shrews	75	0.1^b	0.0	0.0–0.1
body mass					91.0	< 0.001
Order					426.2	< 0.001
Weaning/adult body mass (g)
Bats	120	0.7^a	0.2	0.2–1.3
Rodents	306	0.4^b	0.2	0.0–1.5
Shrews	65	0.8^a	0.2	0.5–1.1
body mass					19.2	< 0.001
Order					133.2	< 0.001
Interbirth interval (fraction of year)
Bats	89	1.0^a	0.1	0.4–1.0
Rodents	236	0.1^b	0.1	0.0–0.6
Shrews	30	0.1^c	0.1	0.1–0.3
body mass					16.1	< 0.001
Order					1643.4	< 0.001