Fig. 3

Illustration of CVA for the 8 Nile tilapia populations, depicted from canonical variate (CV) scores. a represents CVA scatter plot, while b and c portray CV1 and CV2 scores plotted on bar graphs respectively. Ellipses in the scatter plot represent a 95% confidence interval for the means set at 10,000 iterations. Similar superscript letters on the bar graphs indicate that populations are morphologically clustered together and therefore undifferentiated significantly (p < 0.05) and vice-versa