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. 2010 May 12;8:60. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-60

Table 2.

Statistical support for whether the distribution of phenotypes for eco-morphological traits is composed of one or two normal distributions.

Character Data Goodness-of-fit AICc for unimodal AICc for bimodal ΔAICc Supported distribution
Lip size Standardized area P < 0.0001 -139.83 -448.46 308.64 Bimodal (strong support)
Body shape PC1 P < 0.0001 -486.00 -1037.57 551.57 Bimodal (strong support)
Pharyngeal jaw PC1 P < 0.0002 -411.53 -868.68 457.15 Bimodal (strong support)
Diet MDS 1 P < 0.0001 83.53 64.05 19.48 Bimodal (strong support)
Stable isotope (13C) 13C defatted P < 0.0008 139.41 134.52 4.89 Unimodal = bimodal
Stable isotope (15N) 15N P < 0.0556 71.65 64.50 7.16 Bimodal (moderate support)

Data are composed of raw or multivariate data. Low P values for goodness-of-fit suggest poor fit of the data to a single normal distribution. ΔAICc is the difference in model AICc for a single- compared to a two-component model. Levels of support for one model over the other are described in the Methods. Frequency histograms and normality plots can be found in Additional File 7.

AICc, Akaike Information Criterion; MDS, multidimensional scaling.