Table 1

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)


Aperture
Distance
Thick
Internode
Branch

Aperture
-

0.457*
0.75***
0.789***
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*
-

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