An enigmatic pygmy dormouse: molecular and morphological evidence for the species taxonomic status of Typhlomys chapensis (Rodentia: Platacanthomyidae)

Zoological Studies

Table 2 Results of multivariate analyses

Characters	PCA		DFA			ANOVA
Characters	PCA		DFA			Males		Females
	PC 1	PC 2	CAN 1	CAN 2	CAN 3	F	p	F	p
GL	−0.985	−0.014	0.312	−0.056	0.263	16.79	0.006	12.25	0.004
CBL	−0.977	0.159	0.228	−0.068	0.342	9.15	0.023	5.72	0.032
BL	−0.959	0.225	0.180	−0.046	0.311	5.12	0.064	3.71	0.076
PL	−0.888	−0.204	0.467	−0.066	0.167	96.65	0.000	25.93	0.000
IB	−0.744	−0.418	0.232	0.066	0.037	4.72	0.072	10.59	0.006
BB	−0.852	−0.106	0.297	0.155	0.278	10.06	0.019	16.29	0.001
BH	−0.548	0.114	0.295	−0.163	0.045	6.17	0.047	14.84	0.002
ZW	−0.938	0.098	0.240	−0.067	0.056	6.78	0.040	8.43	0.012
DL	−0.920	−0.015	0.318	−0.192	0.344	11.88	0.014	12.61	0.004
NL	−0.760	0.035	0.227	−0.069	−0.294	1.98	0.209	11.66	0.005
UML	−0.742	−0.397	0.234	0.156	0.075	3.56	0.108	14.94	0.002
LML	−0.831	−0.348	0.252	−0.024	0.199	8.81	0.025	8.93	0.010
BUM	−0.886	−0.419	0.334	0.042	0.320	16.95	0.006	15.94	0.002
LFI	−0.690	−0.125	0.113	0.028	0.245	11.99	0.013	1.12	0.309
Cumulative variance (%)	71.6	77.3	78.5	98.1	100.0

Factor loadings and cumulative variance for the principal components in the principal components analysis illustrated in Figure 2 and canonical correlations and cumulative variance for the canonical variates in the discriminant function analysis illustrated in Figure 3.