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From: Sexual dimorphism dominates divergent host plant use in stick insect trophic morphology

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Morphological uniqueness (MU) assessed for T. cristinae lingual and occlusial mandibles using all 18 relative warps (RWs) supported by 1000 resampling permutations. Panels show 80% confidence bubbles outlining morphospace occupied by different A) sexes B) host plant ecotypes and C) rearing conditions for the lingual mandible along the first three RWs accounting for 57% of overall shape variation. Panels D-F show the same as A-B but for the occlusial mandible whose first 3 RWs account for 56% of the shape variation. Deformation grids next to RWs in panel A and F show general shape change trends along each. FLD = field LAB = Laboratory A = Adenostoma and C = Ceanothus; §-Mean MU calculated from all pairwise comparisons; *** = P < 0.001, ** = P < 0.01, and * = P < 0.05.

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