Table 3.
Comparisons between ontogenetic trajectories
| A. sex | Chromis | C. bro | C. gla | D. aru | D. tri | P. pav | S. nig | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neurocranium | A. sex | - | |||||||
| Chromis | 27.7 | - | |||||||
| C. bro | 45.4 | 53.4 | - | ||||||
| C. gla | 36.1 | 43.1 | 20.6 | - | |||||
| D. aru | 33.5 | 38.5 | 38 | 37.4 | - | ||||
| D. tri | 33.8 | 36.2 | 40.3 | 39.3 | 12.6 | - | |||
| P. pav | 47.1 | 53.6 | 28.5 | 32.5 | 37.3 | 40.3 | - | ||
| S. nig | 43.4 | 51.8 | 30.3 | 32.9 | 26 | 28.8 | 30.1 | - | |
| Suspensorium & opercle | A. sex | - | |||||||
| Chromis | 45.5 | - | |||||||
| C. bro | 34.5 | 52.6 | - | ||||||
| C. gla | 25.6 | 41.4 | 20.6 | - | |||||
| D. aru | 27.8 | 32.5 | 34.4 | 28.2 | - | ||||
| D. tri | 26.3 | 31.9 | 42.1 | 29 | 24.9 | - | |||
| P. pav | 22.1 | 39.3 | 24.8 | 19.9 | 17.2 | 28 | - | ||
| S. nig | 22.8 | 50.2 | 32.5 | 26.6 | 30.5 | 26 | 28.9 | - | |
| Mandible | A. sex | - | |||||||
| Chromis | 33.3 | - | |||||||
| C. bro | 18 | 40.5 | - | ||||||
| C. gla | 15.9 | 36.9 | 9.9 | - | |||||
| D. aru | 21.8 | 20.1 | 28.9 | 24.2 | - | ||||
| D. tri | 17.5 | 24.3 | 23.5 | 19.1 | 8 | - | |||
| P. pav | 16.8 | 33 | 17.9 | 17.8 | 21.9 | 20.3 | - | ||
| S. nig | 31.9 | 34.2 | 29.1 | 23.8 | 25.8 | 26 | 30.1 | - | |
| Premaxilla | A. sex | - | |||||||
| Chromis | 72.9 | - | |||||||
| C. bro | 50.8 | 78.5 | - | ||||||
| C. gla | 40.8 | 89.6 | 18.7 | - | |||||
| D. aru | 35.8 | 88.5 | 52.8 | 42.1 | - | ||||
| D. tri | 27.1 | 75.2 | 39.1 | 31.8 | 23.4 | - | |||
| P. pav | 46.9 | 97.6 | 31.3 | 21.9 | 40.4 | 37.6 | - | ||
| S. nig | 58.2 | 101.3 | 50.6 | 46.4 | 59.1 | 55 | 43.4 | - | |
Angles between the ontogenetic vectors of the eight damselfish species are in decimal degrees. Results are obtained by bootstrapping procedure (N = 400) using VecCompare6. The angle between ontogenetic vectors is considered significant (in bold) if it exceeds the bootstrapped within-group variance at 95% confidence. See Table 1 for abbreviations of the species.