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Table 4 Measures of proximity between groups

From: Phenotype and animal domestication: A study of dental variation between domestic, wild, captive, hybrid and insular Sus scrofa

  

Tooth

Upper M2

Upper M3

Lower M2

Lower M3

Comparison

Mean(D2)

W

p

Mean(D2)

W

p

Mean(D2)

W

p

Mean(D2)

W

p

Shape

DP-captive WB

12.026

10000

< 2.2e-16

187.591

7672

6.69E - 11

8.157

9793

< 2.2e - 16

3.755

5368

0.3692

WB-captive WB

3.755

62.824

3.697

3.396

WB-DP

7.732

  

115.946

  

8.767

  

8.005

  

DP-crosses

3.548

5494

0.2279

8.546

6925

2.57e - 06

5.870

4657

0.4027

8.452

6625

7.00e - 05

WB-crosses

3.432

7.299

5.998

7.590

WB-DP

6.794

  

11.441

  

7.013

  

13.697

  

DP-CS WB

18.620

8766

< 2.2e - 16

11.646

7544

5.14e - 10

6.759

3151

6.28e - 06

21.918

7587

2.62e - 10

WB-CS WB

12.503

8.939

8.179

15.811

WB-DP

11.421

  

9.497

  

13.914

  

13.492

  

Size

DP-captive WB

0.825

9496

< 2e - 16

0.361

279

< 2e - 16

1.072

7567

3.50e - 10

0.168

1031

< 2e - 16

WB-captive WB

0.259

2.512

0.671

1.080

WB-DP

1.917

  

1.231

  

3.361

  

1.650

  

DP-crosses

0.308

247

< 2e - 16

0.040

1

< 2e - 16

0.451

2

< 2e - 16

0.101

0

< 2e - 16

WB-crosses

0.997

1.249

1.786

2.505

WB-DP

2.367

  

1.581

  

3.994

  

3.420

  

DP-CS WB

7.606

100

< 2e - 16

5.989

0

< 2e - 16

5.989

0

< 2e - 16

8.685

103

< 2e - 16

WB-CS WB

17.103

18.187

18.187

22.951

WB-DP

1.987

  

3.402

  

3.402

  

3.543

  
  1. Mean Mahalanobis D2 distances between groups of interest, with results of the comparison of the distance distributions between captive WB, crosses or CS WB and the wild and domestic pigs (Wilcoxon’s tests (W) and corresponding probability (p)). The smallest distances are in bold.
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