News Finding: "It's a great study," says Brennan, "but it's hard to predict how representative ostracods may be of larger [animals] that reproduce much more slowly and in smaller numbers."
Paper Finding: We also found no evidence that body size itself was related to the proportion of a genus that is threatened (n ¼ 296, b ¼ 0:083^0:052, t ¼ 1:609, p ¼ 0:844; figure 1b).
News Context: If you're investing in reproduction, you're not investing in coping with a changing environment." "It's a great study," says Brennan, "but it's hard to predict how representative ostracods may be of larger [animals] that reproduce much more slowly and in smaller numbers." "There may not be a singular rule.
Paper Context: Including body size as a covariate in this analysis did not change this result qualitatively (n ¼ 296, F ¼ 3:943, p ¼ 0:126). We also found no evidence that body size itself was related to the proportion of a genus that is threatened (n ¼ 296, b ¼ 0:083^0:052, t ¼ 1:609, p ¼ 0:844; figure 1b). (ii) Residual testes size Again, we found no evidence that the proportion of a genus threatened was related to the mean residual testes size of that genus when either excluding (n ¼ 126, b ¼ 0:285^0:155, t ¼ 1:841, p ¼ 0:109; figure 1c) or including body size as a covariate (n ¼ 126, F ¼ 1:640, p ¼ 0:485).