Canalization and developmental stability of the yellow-necked mouse (Apodemus flavicollis) mandible and cranium related to age and nematode parasitism

Table 4 Levels of canalization and developmental stability (DS) for the mandible and cranium

	Var_SymmCS	Var_CS	Var_shape	SizeFA10a	ShapeFA10a
Mandible
P0	6963.96	–	0.00098	10.78	0.00412
P1	9780.19	–	0.00114	13.04	0.00377
P2	7605.12	–	0.00109	6.38	0.00347
P3	3961.81	–	0.00125	15.48	0.00373
Cranium		*			*
P0	–	19,286.69	0.00038	–	0.00132
P1	–	22,648.45	0.00040	–	0.00136
P2	–	22,449.80	0.00041	–	0.00131
P3	–	10,525.37	0.00040	–	0.00134

^* Significance level at P < 0.01 after Levene’s test
Categories regarding parasitism: P0—non-parasitized animals, P1—animals parasitized by one nematode species, P2—animals parasitized by two nematode species, P3—animals parasitized by three to five nematode species. Var_SymmCS—mandibular among-individual size variance; Var_CS—cranial among-individual size variance; Var_shape—variance in mandibular/cranial shape; SizeFA10a—level of fluctuating asymmetry (FA) for mandibular size; ShapeFA10a—level of fluctuating asymmetry (FA) for mandibular/cranial shape. FA10a = 0.798√MS_sj-MS_m calculated from the values given in Additional files 4 and 5: Tables S4 and S5

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