The evolution of genital complexity and mating rates in sexually size dimorphic spiders

Table 1 The results of phylogenetic ANOVA and generalized estimating equations (GEE) analyses testing for association between discrete traits and continuous characters

	Phylogenetic ANOVA		GEE
	F value	P value	Slope (±SE)	P value
Female mating rate
vs. female genital complexity	16.494	0.106	−0.191 (1.019)	0.096
vs. male genital complexity	75.296	0.002	−3.747 (0.692)	<0.001
vs. female body length	1.951	0.550	1.811 (7.611)	0.818
vs. male body length	1.079	0.656	0.099 (1.307)	0.941
vs. sexual size dimorphism	0.370	0.797	0.121 (1.630)	0.942
vs. sexual cannibalism rate	4.750	0.219	−0.242 (0.169)	0.224
Male mating rate
vs. female genital complexity	25.112	0.002	−1.851 (0.417)	0.002
vs. male genital complexity	52.721	0.001	−1.936 (0.411)	0.001
vs. female body length	1.511	0.487	7.272 (3.276)	0.056
vs. male body length	0.329	0.746	0.430 (0.575)	0.476
vs. sexual size dimorphism	0.087	0.893	0.372 (0.722)	0.619
vs. sexual cannibalism rate	9.667	0.018	−0.277 (0.081)	0.025

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