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. 2014 Apr 10;14:79. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-14-79

Table 2.

Phylogenetically corrected models testing for differences in male pre- and post-copulatory sexually selected traits with different mating tactics

Dependent variables Independent variables Beta ± SE t P N df r λ
Weapon length*
Body mass*
0.53 ± 0.07
7.67
< 0.001
58
55
0.72
0.98 0.001/0.30
 
Tactic
−0.22 ± 0.17
−1.29
0.20
 
 
−0.17
 
Testes mass*
Body mass*
0.67 ± 0.12
5.51
< 0.001
45
42
0.65
0.00 1/< 0.001
 
Tactic
0.16 ± 0.27
0.60
0.55
 
 
0.09
 
Sperm length
Tactic
−1.02 ± 1.94
−0.53
0.60
54
52
−0.07
0.67 0.06/< 0.001
Sperm head length
Tactic
−0.16 ± 0.41
−0.38
0.70
54
52
−0.05
0.58 0.01/< 0.001
Sperm midpiece length
Tactic
0.04 ± 0.78
0.05
0.96
53
51
0.01
0.92 < 0.001/0.01
Sperm midpiece volume
Tactic
−0.13 ± 0.39
−0.34
0.74
47
45
−0.05
0.00 1/0
Sperm tail length Tactic −1.23 ± 1.50 −0.82 0.42 54 52 −0.11 0.52 0.24/< 0.001

Female defence species is coded as 0 and territory defence is coded as 1. Models are tested with Bininda-Emonds et al. [31] phylogeny across ungulates species (both Bovidae and Cervidae pooled). r represents effect size values and λ represents the index of phylogenetic covariance (see Methods section). The superscripts following the λ value indicate p-value of likelihood ratio tests against models with λ = 0 (first position) and λ = 1 (second position). *log transformed variables.