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. 2016 Dec 21;3(12):160687. doi: 10.1098/rsos.160687

Table 4.

Effects of sex, state and source (wild versus common garden) on limb sizes of 1274 wild and 184 captive-reared toads from long-established populations in Queensland and invasion-front populations in West Australia. The significant main effect of source in all cases indicates that wild toads had relatively longer limbs than captive-reared toads. The significant shift in sexual dimorphism of limb lengths between states (indicated by significant sex × state interactions) does not differ between wild and common garden toads (all three-way interactions n.s.). Statistically significant values (p < 0.05) are highlighted in italics.

trait effect d.f. F p
total leg length SVL 1,1447 8339.8 <0.0001
state 1,1447 9.3 0.0023
sex 1,1447 94.2 <0.0001
state × sex 1,1447 21.9 <0.0001
source 1,1447 182.3 <0.0001
state × source 1,1447 0.23 0.6351
sex × source 1,1447 0.5 0.4884
state × sex × source 1,1447 0.4 0.5403
humerus SVL 1,1449 5086.1 <0.0001
state 1,1449 3.5 0.0628
sex 1,1449 243.8 <0.0001
state × sex 1,1449 21.9 <0.0001
source 1,1449 114.5 <0.0001
state × source 1,1449 0.7 0.4204
sex × source 1,1449 2.3 0.1277
state × sex × source 1,1449 0.04 0.8440
tibia SVL 1,1449 9008.1 <0.0001
state 1,1449 5.6 0.0180
sex 1,1449 136.7 <0.0001
state × sex 1,1449 23.4 <0.0001
source 1,1449 167.1 <0.0001
state × source 1,1449 0.01 0.9194
sex × source 1,1449 0.3 0.5648
state × sex × source 1,1449 0.7 0.3887
foot SVL 1,1447 5697.3 <0.0001
state 1,1447 6.9 0.0087
sex 1,1447 47.7 <0.0001
state × sex 1,1447 14.7 0.0001
source 1,1447 121.7 <0.0001
state × source 1,1447 1.1 0.2939
sex × source 1,1447 0.2 0.6916
state × sex × source 1,1447 0.4 0.5483