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Significance levels among Third-order Partial Correlation Coefficients (PCC) for the five supra-modular variables (below the diagonal) and Bivariate (zero-order) correlation coefficients (above the diagonal). Complete name of variables: Polyp Aperture, Inter Polyp Distance, Thickness, Internode length an Branch lenght (see Fig. 3 for variable distributions and colony location) |
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| Aperture |
Distance |
Thick |
Internode |
Branch |
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| Aperture |
- |
0.457* |
0.75*** |
0.789*** |
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| Distance |
n.s. |
- |
n.s. |
n.s. |
n.s. |
| Thickness |
-0.171* |
n.s. |
- |
0.556** |
0.659*** |
| Internode |
n.s. |
n.s. |
n.s. |
- |
0.791*** |
| Branch |
0.482** |
n.s. |
0.442* |
0.383* |
- |
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n.s. non significant * P < 0.05 **P < 0.01 *** P < 0.001 | |||||
Sánchez et al. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007 7:122 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-122 |
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