Percent of variation between dog and fox explained by limb size

Range 50-58 %
Organism dog
Reference Kharlamova AV, Trut LN, Carrier DR, Chase K, Lark KG. Genetic regulation of canine skeletal traits: trade-offs between the hind limbs and forelimbs in the fox and dog. Integr Comp Biol. 2007 Sep47(3):373-381. (author online manuscript-pp.5, pp. 14 table 2)PubMed ID18458753
Method Skeletal metrics taken from radiographs of the forelimbs and hind limbs of the fox and dog were used to construct separate anatomical principal component (PC) matrices of the two species.
Entered by Uri M
ID 102297