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. 2013 Sep 4;14:599. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-599

Table 2.

Number of proteins (out of 4934) showing significant evolutionary relationships (using PGLM, threshold p = 0.01; seeMethodsfor details) between principal component (PC) axes and ecological/genomic traits of interest (for hypotheses, see Table 1; for PC axis loadings, see Figure 1)

Trait
Number of significant relationships
  PC1 PC2 PC3 PC4 PC5 PC6 PC7 PC8
Genome size
49
44
49
36
13
21
25
26
Intron percent
651
561
493
539+
349-
313+
363
475
Dimorphism
73
58
47
82
22
27
34
53
Thorax width
128
104
49
99
33
35
50
86
Specific development time
393
309
272
267+
170
161
197
270
Development time
118
86
31
87
31
33
37
79
Diet breadth
302*
229*
200-
229
119+
120
148-
205+
Ovariole number 394 288 260 311 162 179 195 250

Values over 200, or 4 × the expected number of proteins, we deemed significant and are given in bold. +/− in superscript indicates that regression coefficients are biased towards positive or negative values (binomial sign tests). Asterisk indicates the sign of coefficients are unevenly distributed among protein functional categories (χ2 tests).