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. 2020 Oct 28;287(1937):20202477. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.2477

Correction to ‘Substrate use drives the macroevolution of mammalian tail length diversity’

S T Mincer, G A Russo
PMCID: PMC7661292  PMID: 33109016

Proc. R. Soc. B 287, 20192885. (Published 5 February 2020). (doi:10.1098/rspb.2019.2885)

There are two minor errors in figure 2 of the originally published manuscript. The scale colour bar accompanying the summary tree to signify slope value was flipped so that it was incorrectly labelled. In the corrected figure red represents slope of −4.4, and blue represents slope of 3.3. The labels for two branches in the summary tree representing significant shifts in slope and intercept for Caprinae and Bovinae were also switched. Correct slope and intercept values for all branches are included in the electronic supplementary material, and the errors described here have now been fixed in the figure submitted in this correction. These errors do not change the interpretation or accuracy of results.

Figure 2.

Figure 2.

Summary tree of the evolutionary best-fit model for tail length ∼ body length. Black represents the ancestral condition and each colour represents a statistically significant evolutionary shift (regime) in slope and intercept (available in electronic supplementary material), coloured by the slope for each group. Tailless species (dashed lines) were not included in the evolutionary best-fit model but have been subsequently added back onto the tree to show where tail loss has occurred in phylogeny.


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