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Table 2 Pagel’s λ results to detect a phylogenetic signal

From: Cranial morphology of captive mammals: a meta-analysis

Feature

Analysis

λ Mean

λ StDev

Skull Length

Directional

0.89*

0.01

Magnitude

2.2e-4

6.8e10–4

Skull Width

Directional

0.01

0.07

Magnitude

0.54

0.15

Skull L:W

Directional

0.88*

0.01

Magnitude

0.70

0.01

  1. Mean lambda estimate from 2000 randomly selected phylogenic trees and the standard deviation (StDev) around that mean for skull length, skull width, and skull length-to-width (L:W) analyses. Significant results are indicated in bold and asterisks indicate p-value range: 0.01–0.05*