Within species support for the expensive tissue hypothesis: a negative association between brain size and visceral fat storage in females of the Pacific seaweed pipefish.

Ecol Evol · 2016 · PMC4739565 · PMID 26865955

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a nonsignificant trendP = 0.053so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

We found a nonsignificant trend ( P = 0.053) for a positive correlation between brain size and liver size in nonbrooding males and a negative correlation between brain size and visceral fat content in females ( P = 0.008, Fig. 3 ).

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a positive trendno p-value reported

Furthermore, in females we found a negative correlation between brain size and the amount of visceral fat, whereas in males, a positive trend between brain size and both liver and heart size was found.

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