BMC Ecology and Evolution

Table 2 Effects on fourth segment histoblast cell count in male sepsids taking into account phylogenetic relationships between species conducted using MCMCglmm (DIC = 1620.037)

From: Comparative analysis reveals the complex role of histoblast nest size in the evolution of novel insect abdominal appendages in Sepsidae (Diptera)

Effect	Posterior mean	Lower CI	Upper CI	pMCMC
Intercept	31.95	−61.8464	122.289	0.4853
Length	0.066	−0.0401	0.1739	0.2278
Appendage	197.8295	70.1738	325.2097	0.0024
Length: Appendage	−0.1692	−0.3548	0.003	0.0626
Phylogeny^a	7528	2719	9998

^aProportion of residual variance explained by phylogeny

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