White eye-rings coevolved with diurnal behaviors as a trait enhancing visual appeal in rodents
Nguyen Hoang Khoi Le, Shou-Hsien Li, Chi-Cheng Chiu, Meng-Pin Weng, Shih‐Kuo Chen, Ben-Yang Liao
The paper investigates the evolutionary relationship between white eye-rings and diurnal behavior in rodents, finding that WER enhances visual appeal in diurnal species.
Communications Biology · Mar 24, 2026Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology