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Fig. 5 | Zoological Letters

Fig. 5

From: Trabecular architecture in the sciuromorph femoral head: allometry and functional adaptation

Fig. 5

Lifestyle-related adaptations of trabecular parameters. The boxplots illustrate distributions of the size-corrected (s.c., residuals after allometry regression) data of the trabecular parameters in the lifestyle groups aerial ae, arboreal ar, semifossorial sf and fossorial fo. Significant differences between groups, as revealed by phylogenetically informed regression, are indicated by the horizontal lines (p-values were corrected for multiple testing, for detailed explanation see text). a-c Aerial species are distinguished from fossorial ones by a higher trabecular thickness TbTh, lower connectivity density ConnD and lower bone surface density BS/BV. d Trabecular separation TbSp is higher in arboreal species than in semifossorial ones. e-f Degree of anisotropy DA and bone volume fraction BV/TV do not show significant functional signals

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