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. 2023 Oct 3;14:5719. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-41290-x

Table 2.

Outcome of the analyses testing the evolutionary dependency relationships between same-sex sexual behaviour, sociality and adulticide (female adulticide in models testing the evolution of female same-sex sexual behaviour and male adulticide in models testing the evolution of male same-sex sexual behaviour)

Models of evolution Likelihood AIC LRTa AICwb
Same-sex sexual behaviour versus sociality
Males
 Independence −977.1 ± 1.5 1962.3 ± 3.0 0.00 ± 0.00
 Non-directional interdependence −942.0 ± 1.4 1900.0 ± 2.8 70.3 **** 0.40 ± 0.06
 Sociality depends on same-sex sexual behaviour −963.3 ± 1.5 1938.6 ± 2.9 27.7 **** 0.00 ± 0.00
 Same sex-sexual behaviour depends on sociality −943.4 ± 1.4 1898.8 ± 2.8 67.5 **** 0.60 ± 0.00
Females
 Independence −895.6 ± 1.6 1799.1 ± 3.3 0.00 ± 0.00
 Interdependence 861.6 ± 1.5 1739.1 ± 2.9 68.1 *** 0.32 ± 0.03
 Sociality depends on same-sex sexual behaviour 879.9 ± 1.7 1771.8 ± 3.5. 31.4 *** 0.00 ± 0.00
 Same-sex sexual behaviour depends on sociality 862.6 ± 1.4 1737.3 ± 2.8 65.9 *** 0.68 ± 0.03
Same-sex sexual behaviour versus adulticide
Males
 Independence −1174.4 ± 1.6 2356.7 ± 3.1 0.00 ± 0.00
 Non-directional interdependence −1128.6 ± 1.6 2273.3 ± 3.3 91.5 **** 0.32 ± 0.03
 Adulticide depends on same-sex sexual behaviour −1129.8 ± 1.6 2285.9 ± 3.0 89.1 **** 0.01 ± 0.01
 Same-sex sexual behaviour depends on adulticide −1136.9 ± 1.5 2272.3 ± 3.3 74.9 **** 0.66 ± 0.03
Females
 Independence −806.1 ± 1.4 1620.1 ± 2.7 0.06 ± 0.02
 Non-directional interdependence −798.3 ± 1.4 1612.6 ± 2.8 15.6 0.47 ± 0.06
 Adulticide depends on same-sex sexual behaviour −801.5 ± 1.4 1615.1 ± 2.9 8.3 0.20 ± 0.04
 Same-sex sexual behaviour depends on adulticide −801.9 ± 1.5 1615.9 ± 3.0 9.3 0.27 ± 0.06

We used for this analysis the subset III.

aLRT comparing independence model against any of the other three models.

bAkaike relative weights of each model.