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Table 3 Brain structure loadings on the first principal component

From: Brain structure evolution in a basal vertebrate clade: evidence from phylogenetic comparative analysis of cichlid fishes

Brain structure

Loadings on PC1

Olfactory bulbs

0.86

Telencephalon

0.94

Optic tecta

0.96

Cerebellum

0.98

Medulla

0.88

Hypothalamus

0.98

  1. Loadings of the individual structures on the first principal component of a phylogenetic principal components analysis. These loadings indicate to what extent variance in brain size explains variance in structure volume.
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BMC Ecology and Evolution

ISSN: 2730-7182

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