Table 1 General linear mixed models (MGLM), in which the independent variables were incubation temperature treatments, and as random variable the origin nest, and the dependent variables were: shell thickness with ornamentation (total height), thickness without ornamentation, and pore density (mean ± standard deviation).

From: “Intracascaral space” an eggshell structure of Caiman latirostris eggs

Model

LRT

P (chi)

Temperature treatments

Pore density of pole-treatment + (1/nest)

2.91

0.405

Pore density of equator-treatment + (1/nest)

4.57

0.206

Thickness with ornamentation of pole-treatment + (1/nest)

4.58

0.205

Thickness without ornamentation of pole-treatment + (1/nest)

1.88

0.598

Thickness with ornamentation of equator-treatment + (1/nest)

4.38

0.223

Thickness without ornamentation of equator-treatment + (1/nest)

2.62

0.454

  1. Degrees of freedom of the analyses were 3.