Support for a rare pattern of temperature-dependent sex determination in archaic reptiles: evidence from two species of tuatara (Sphenodon)

Table 3 Relative AIC values over 21 development windows (0.25–0.30, etc.) and four model types.

Embryonic development window	Proportion of embryonic development period	TSD Model				Mean
		FM.L	FM.A	FMF.L	FMF.A
0.25 – 0.30	5%	15	16.5	17.6	15.5	16.2
0.30 – 0.35		28.2	30.2	32.2	36.2	31.7
0.35 – 0.40		4.3	6.3	1.6	4.1	4.1
0.40 – 0.45		35	36.8	35.7	38.3	36.5
0.45 – 0.50		20.3	22.1	22.7	27	23.0
0.50 – 0.55		0	1	4	7	3.0
0.25 – 0.35	10%	14.9	16.6	17.2	14.1	15.7
0.30 – 0.40		14.5	16.5	18.5	22.5	18.0
0.35 – 0.45		17.8	19.5	15	17.3	17.4
0.40 – 0.50		21.9	23.8	23.1	20.2	22.3
0.45 – 0.55		10.5	12.4	13.6	15.5	13.0
0.25 – 0.40	15%	7.5	9.4	7.7	7.2	8.0
0.30 – 0.45		16.3	18.2	15.2	15.8	16.4
0.35 – 0.50		14.9	16.8	13.8	16.9	15.6
0.40 – 0.55		12.6	14.4	14.3	16.1	14.4
0.25 – 0.45	20%	10.4	12.2	9.6	8	10.1
0.30 – 0.50		14	15.9	14.1	15.4	14.9
0.35 – 0.55		9.3	11.2	8.3	10.7	9.9
0.25 – 0.50	25%	11.4	13.2	11.9	12.6	12.3
0.30 – 0.55		9.6	11.5	10.6	13.2	11.2
0.25 – 0.55	30%	9	10.8	9.9	11.1	10.2
	Mean	14.2	16.0	15.1	16.4

FMF.L = FMF logistic, FMF.A = FMF A-logistic, FM.L = FM logistic and FM.A = FM A-logistic.

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