Bipartite life cycle of coral reef fishes promotes increasing shape disparity of the head skeleton during ontogeny: an example from damselfishes (Pomacentridae)

Table 3 Comparisons between ontogenetic trajectories

		A. sex	Chromis	C. bro	C. gla	D. aru	D. tri	P. pav	S. nig
Neurocranium	A. sex	-
	Chromis	27.7	-
	C. bro	45.4	53.4	-
	C. gla	36.1	43.1	20.6	-
	D. aru	33.5	38.5	38	37.4	-
	D. tri	33.8	36.2	40.3	39.3	12.6	-
	P. pav	47.1	53.6	28.5	32.5	37.3	40.3	-
	S. nig	43.4	51.8	30.3	32.9	26	28.8	30.1	-
Suspensorium & opercle	A. sex	-
	Chromis	45.5	-
	C. bro	34.5	52.6	-
	C. gla	25.6	41.4	20.6	-
	D. aru	27.8	32.5	34.4	28.2	-
	D. tri	26.3	31.9	42.1	29	24.9	-
	P. pav	22.1	39.3	24.8	19.9	17.2	28	-
	S. nig	22.8	50.2	32.5	26.6	30.5	26	28.9	-
Mandible	A. sex	-
	Chromis	33.3	-
	C. bro	18	40.5	-
	C. gla	15.9	36.9	9.9	-
	D. aru	21.8	20.1	28.9	24.2	-
	D. tri	17.5	24.3	23.5	19.1	8	-
	P. pav	16.8	33	17.9	17.8	21.9	20.3	-
	S. nig	31.9	34.2	29.1	23.8	25.8	26	30.1	-
Premaxilla	A. sex	-
	Chromis	72.9	-
	C. bro	50.8	78.5	-
	C. gla	40.8	89.6	18.7	-
	D. aru	35.8	88.5	52.8	42.1	-
	D. tri	27.1	75.2	39.1	31.8	23.4	-
	P. pav	46.9	97.6	31.3	21.9	40.4	37.6	-
	S. nig	58.2	101.3	50.6	46.4	59.1	55	43.4	-

Angles between the ontogenetic vectors of the eight damselfish species are in decimal degrees. Results are obtained by bootstrapping procedure (N = 400) using VecCompare6. The angle between ontogenetic vectors is considered significant (in bold) if it exceeds the bootstrapped within-group variance at 95% confidence. See Table 1 for abbreviations of the species.

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