PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF SEED WEIGHT AND
STORAGE BEHAVIOUR
Non-orthodox seeds in the genus Acer were significantly
heavier than orthodox seeds after controlling
for phylogeny. This result was consistent across
the two published phylogenies of the genus Acer
(F1,24 = 11.7, P = 0.0019 for Hasebe et al.’s phylogeny
and F1,26 = 11.8, P = 0.0001 for Ackerly & Donoghue’s
phylogeny) (Fig. 2).