Modelling developmental instability as the joint action of noise and stability: a Bayesian approach

Table 3 Overview of empirical datasets used to estimate developmental noise and the distribution of variation in DS simultaneously.

'Species^a	Trait	Sample size	R^b
Winter moth (Operophtera brumata)¹	tibia length	728	0.50
Indian meal moth (Plodia interpunctella)²	tibia length	433	0.56
Greenfinch (Carduelis chloris)³	femur length	452	0.22
Greenfinch (Carduelis chloris)³	mandibular foramen	452	0.18
Greenfinch (Carduelis chloris)³	humerus length^c	433	0.04^NS
Greenfinch (Carduelis chloris)³	ulna length^c	443	0.10^NS
White-starred robin (Pogonocichla stellata)⁴	eye stripe length	214	0.49
Taita thrush (Turdus helleri)⁴	tarsus length	313	0.37

^a References: 1) [25]; 2) [26]; 3) Karvonen, Merilä, Rintamäki & Van Dongen., unpublished; 4) [27] ^b significantly larger than zero unless mentioned otherwise (NS: p > 0.05) ^c MCMC showed no convergence when analysed

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