Table 4.

Contribution of variables to the first two factors of the PCA Analysis by sex, stage of development, and station (in italic bold values > 0.700).

Variable	Factor 1	Factor 2
Eye diameter (ED)	− 0.912443	0.228647
Carapace length (CL)	− 0.873509	− 0.395844
Total length (TL)	− 0.976020	− 0.118341
Wet weight (WW)	− 0.968097	− 0.081015
Lipids per animal (Li)	− 0.609613	− 0.595346
Carotenoids per-Animal (CaI)	− 0.857184	0.415815
Abdominal length (LA)	− 0.941244	0.077728
Differentiation index (DI)	− 0.151757	− 0.603600
Carotenoids per gram (CaG)	− 0.211853	0.745316
Carotenoid:lipid ratio (Ca/Li)	− 0.215939	0.917497
Explained variance	5.592271	2.524550
Proportion of total	0.559227	0.252455
Total first two factors	81.17%