Table 2 in Divergent paterns of cranial suture fusion in marsupial and placental mammals

Table 2. Spearman’s rank correlations between total suture closure score, based on ectocranial analysis, and skull size (logged centroid size) for each species (N = 22), where bold indicates a significant correlation (P <0.05).
SpeciesSpearman’s ρP -valueBetongia penicillata0.999<0.001Bradypus tridactylus0.964<0.001Cyclopes didactylus1.000<0.001Dasyprocta leporina0.929<0.001Dasypus nooemcinctus0.7710.072Epomops fanqueti0.9750.004Felis catus0.955<0.001Macroscelides proboscideus0.7710.072Microcebus murinus0.8000.200Monodelphis domestica0.934<0.001Mus musculus0.8290.042Ornithorhynchus anatinus1.000<0.001Phacochoerus aficanus0.7450.008Phascolarctos cinereus0.934<0.001Phataginus tricuspis0.6790.094Ratus ratus1.000<0.001Sapajus apella1.000<0.001Setifer setosus0.976<0.001Setonix brachyurus0.989<0.001Sminthopsis macroura0.991<0.001Talpa europaea0.9050.002Trichosurus oulpecula0.8950.001