In contrast, we found a significantly positive correlation between the node density (ND) measure and the number of cardenolide compounds, while for the alternate equal split (ES) measure the correlation was marginally significant for the simulation-based method only ( Table 3 ).
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Independent evolution of ancestral and novel defenses in a genus of toxic plants (<i>Erysimum</i>, Brassicaceae).
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It is obvious that any crude multiple-test correction such as Bonferroni-correction would make modestly significant correlations, such as we found them between cardenolide numbers and speciation rate, become non-significant.