Fig. 4: Posterior distributions of contrasts in directional changes (female change − male change) for species in the three SSD categories for four tetrapod clades. | Nature Ecology & Evolution

Fig. 4: Posterior distributions of contrasts in directional changes (female change − male change) for species in the three SSD categories for four tetrapod clades.

From: Evolution of sexual size dimorphism in tetrapods is driven by varying patterns of sex-specific selection on size

Fig. 4

Positive values indicate females increase in size compared to males and negative values indicate the opposite (although both sexes might experience increase or decrease in size compared to the ancestral value). The red shaded area represents the ROPE, where contrasts cannot be distinguished from zero. Darker grey regions of each posterior distribution represent areas that overlap the ROPE. Icons from PhyloPic.org under a CC0 1.0 license: Panthera leo, Margot Michaud; Turdus pillaris, Sharon Wegner-Larsen; Varanus komodoensis, Steven Traver; Hyla versicolor, Will Booker.

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