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Fig. 2

From: Scleral appearance is not a correlate of domestication in mammals

Fig. 2

Scleral brightness (approximated by greyscale luminance of the scleral portion of the externally visible eye and thus including the conjunctiva) in closely related wild and domesticated mammals. A Distribution of scleral brightness values in the studied species. Note that domesticated and wild forms of each species mostly resemble each other. B Paired boxplot showing scleral brightness in domesticated forms compared to their close wild relatives. C Plot of scleral brightness as a function of ocular diameter. Note that species with larger eyes tend to exhibit greater degrees of conjunctival pigmentation and thus lower scleral brightness

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