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Fig. 2 | BMC Evolutionary Biology

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From: The multi-peak adaptive landscape of crocodylomorph body size evolution

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a and b Boxplots showing AICc scores of the evolutionary models fitted to crocodylomorph phylogeny and body size data (using 20 trees time-calibrated with the FBD method). Results shown for two cranial measurements datasets: ODCL (a) and DCL (b), with silhouettes of crocodylomorph skulls to illustrate the respective measurement (following [96]). For the trend-like models, only the AICc of the best model (“best trend”) is shown. See Additional files 1 and 3 for further results. c-e Comparative results of evolutionary models fitted to simulated data (under Brownian Motion) and our empirical body size data (using the ODCL dataset). Data was simulated for 20 crocodylomorph time-scaled trees, and the same trees were used for fitting the evolutionary models. c Δ-AICc is the difference between AICc scores received by BM and SURFACE models. d Number of regime shifts detected by the SURFACE algorithm. e Values of α estimated by the SURFACE algorithm. Results shown for simulated and empirical data

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