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Published in final edited form as: Mol Ecol. 2025 Mar 14;34(7):e17713. doi: 10.1111/mec.17713

Table 3.

Comparison of combined multivariate linear models of genetically derived metrics with and without the inclusion of mean study population age as an independent variable.

Metric from genetic data	Age inclusion	Dependent variable	Estimate	T value	P value	Adjusted R²
Expected heterozygosity	Without age	Mean diurnal range (BOI2)	−0.0078	−1.5	0.16
	Without age	Overall			0.16	0.12
	With age	PfPR in 2000	0.52	4.9	0.0017 **
		Mean study population age	0.013	4.3	0.0036 **
		Precip. of driest quarter (BIO17)	0.00059	2.8	0.029 *
		Overall			0.011 *	0.68
	Age model comparison by ANOVA				0.012 *
Proportion polyclonal	With and without age	Precip. of wettest quarter (BIO16)	0.0023	6.3	0.00025***
		Precip. of driest quarter (BIO17)	0.00074	5.7	0.00045***
		Overall			3.9×10⁵***	0.90