Table 5. Results from the MANOVA of the log-transformed ratio of characters to SVL of males. The variation was analyzed between the populations from Son La and Thanh Hoa provinces (taxon 1; N = 9) and the populations from Phu Tho and Hoa Binh provinces (taxon 2; N = 10), and between these (jointly referred to as Tylototriton cf. asperrimus) and the population from Lai Chau Province (taxon 3; in the comparison based on head and dorsum related data: NT. cf. asperrimus = 19 and N taxon3 = 3; and in the comparison of limb related data, NT. cf. asperrimus = 21 and N taxon3 = 4). F: F -test; DF: degrees of freedom; P: p -value. For abbreviations of characters see Materials and methods. In Bold significant results.
taxon 1 × taxon 2 T. cf. asperrimus × taxon 3
F DF P F DF P
MHW 17.62 17 <0.001 0.08 20 0.79
HW 7.48 17 0.01 52.48 20 <0.001
EN 4.85 17 0.04 7.52 20 0.01
HL 0.76 17 0.4 0.09 20 0.77
IN 4.56 17 0.05 0.09 20 0.77
LJL 2.51 17 0.13 2.22 20 0.15
RAD/HUM 5.92 17 0.03 0.34 23 0.56
FEM 21.13 17 <0.001 1.10 23 0.30
TIB/FEM 7.07 17 0.02 0.42 23 0.52
HIND 7.47 17 0.01 0.43 23 0.52
HIND/FORE 4.95 17 0.04 0.03 23 0.87
HUM 0.14 17 0.72 4.66 23 0.04
RAD 0.17 17 0.7 <0.001 23 0.98
TIB 1.99 17 0.18 0.83 23 0.78
FORE 0.01 17 0.91 1.87 23 0.19
TL 1.10 17 0.31 0.07 20 0.79
TH 0.35 17 0.56 0.71 20 0.41
TL.TH 0.25 17 0.63 0.56 20 0.46
L5N 0.84 17 0.37 12.43 20 <0.01
WVr 1.61 17 0.22 5.02 20 0.04
TkL 0.90 17 0.36 3.74 20 0.07