Table 1. Result for the relationship between average mismatches and body mass fitted in PGLS analyses.

			Coefficients
			Body mass			GC content
Type	Model	R2	β ± SE	t	P	β ± SE	t	P
All	BM	0.282	0.015 ± 0.003	4.974	<0.001
	BM + GC	0.340	0.015 ± 0.003	5.102	<0.001	−2.533 ± 1.090	2.324	0.023
Di	BM	0.279	0.022 ± 0.005	4.932	<0.001
	BM + GC	0.332	0.022 ± 0.004	5.033	<0.001	−2.940 ± 1.255	2.342	0.022
Tri	BM	0.257	0.015 ± 0.003	4.664	<0.001
	BM + GC	0.293	0.015 ± 0.003	4.711	<0.001	−2.044 ± 1.149	1.778	0.080
Tetra	BM	0.290	0.019 ± 0.004	5.072	<0.001
	BM + GC	0.393	0.019 ± 0.003	5.382	<0.001	−4.074 ± 1.257	3.241	0.002
Penta	BM	0.123	0.011 ± 0.004	2.972	0.004
	BM + GC	0.205	0.011 ± 0.004	3.050	0.003	−3.272 ± 1.296	2.525	0.014
Hexa	BM	0.254	0.013 ± 0.003	4.634	<0.001
	BM + GC	0.268	0.013 ± 0.003	4.620	<0.001	−1.129 ± 1.049	1.076	0.286

Notes.

Key to symbols

All

all imperfect microsatellites

Di, Tri, Tetra, Penta, Hexa

means imperfect microsatellites with different repeat type

BM

Body mass

GC

GC content