Adaptive or non-adaptive? Cranial evolution in a radiation of miniaturized day geckos

Lobón-Rovira, Javier; Marugán-Lobón, Jesus; Nebreda, Sergio M.; Buckley, David; Stanley, Edward L.; Köhnk, Stephanie; Glaw, Frank; Conradie, Werner; Bauer, Aaron M.

doi:10.1186/s12862-024-02344-w

BMC Ecology and Evolution

Table 1 Summary of the results from phylogenetic generalized least squares (PGLS) analyses run on the pruned dataset cranium (dataset 2) to explore the effect of the size (cs = cranium centroid size) and traits (geographic distribution [distribution], macrohabitat and lifestyle) on the shape variation

From: Adaptive or non-adaptive? Cranial evolution in a radiation of miniaturized day geckos

Model	Variable	SS	MS	R²	F	Z	P value
Cranium
Single Models
shape ~ cranium size (cs)	Log(cs)	0.0365	0.0365	0.5869	89.5220	2.4633	< 0.001
shape ~ SVL	Log(SVL)	0.0250	0.0249	0.4013	42.2300	2.5663	< 0.001
shape ~ geographic distribution	distribution	0.0007	0.0002	0.0111	0.2284	-1.1489	0.8511
shape ~ macrohabitat	macrohabitat	0.0015	0.0004	0.0236	0.4913	-0.2775	0.6430
shape ~ lifestyle	lifestyle	0.0451	0.0226	0.7255	81.9190	2.2267	< 0.001
Combined Models
shape ~ ecology by size (lifestyle + cranium centroid size)	lifestyle	0.0104	0.0052	0.1671	20.7182	4.3416	< 0.001
shape ~ ecology by size (lifestyle + cranium centroid size)	Log(cs)	0.0018	0.0018	0.0286	7.0837	4.6356	< 0.001
shape ~ ecology by size (macrohabitat + cranium centroid size)	macrohabitat	0.0020	0.0007	0.0325	1.7075	1.4131	0.0818
	Log(cs)	0.0371	0.0371	0.5958	93.9416	2.4698	< 0.001
shape ~ ecology by size (distribution + cranium centroid size)	distribution	0.0011	0.0004	0.0186	0.9417	0.1107	0.4564
	Log(cs)	0.0370	0.0370	0.5944	90.4096	2.4819	< 0.001
shape ~ geographic distribution + lifestyle	distribution	0.0007	0.0002	0.0119	0.8910	-0.2909	0.6100
shape ~ geographic distribution + lifestyle	lifestyle	0.0452	0.0226	0.7263	81.5760	2.2289	< 0.001
shape ~ geographic distribution*lifestyle	distribution: lifestyle	0.0013	0.0013	0.0214	5.1492	3.8174	< 0.001
shape ~ geographic distribution + macrohabitat	distribution	0.0007	0.0002	0.0110	0.2200	-1.1855	0.8697
shape ~ geographic distribution + macrohabitat	macrohabitat	0.0015	0.0005	0.0235	0.4700	-0.3378	0.6497
shape ~ geographic distribution*macrohabitat	distribution: macrohabitat	0.0008	0.0003	0.01255	0.2414	-1.3329	0.9028
shape ~ macrohabitat + lifestyle	macrohabitat	0.0026	0.0009	0.0414	3.4962	4.3666	< 0.001
shape ~ macrohabitat + lifestyle	lifestyle	0.0462	0.0231	0.7433	94.0721	2.2226	< 0.001
shape ~ macrohabitat*lifestyle	macrohabitat: lifestyle	0.0019	0.0010	0.0308	4.3467	4.5407	< 0.001
shape ~ ecolgeogr.model (distribution + macrohabitat + lifestyle)	distribution	0.0007	0.0002	0.0115	0.9704	0.0100	0.4937
	macrohabitat	0.0025	0.0008	0.0411	3.4590	4.2097	< 0.001
	lifestyle	0.0463	0.0231	0.7438	93.9979	2.2056	< 0.001

Significant results are bolded. To see the complete results of the PGLS analysis interaction see Table S8–S9 & S11. SVL = snout–vent length

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