Does the osteon morphology depend on the body mass? A scaling study on macroscopic and histomorphometric differences between cow ( Bos taurus ) and sheep ( Ovis aries )

Table 5 Statistical data on ANOVA one-way and analysis of significance of the variance of osteonal diameter (On.Dm) and Haversian canal diameter (HC.Dm) with Bonferroni post-hoc test

		Cov	F	p	*
Ovis aries humerus vs. Ovis aries femur	On.Dm	− 286	14.322	6.47E-05	*
Ovis aries humerus vs. Ovis aries femur	HC.Dm	− 12.37	49.28	3.82E-10	*
Ovis aries humerus vs. Bos taurus humerus	On.Dm	− 9.44	0.6382	0.4658	–
Ovis aries humerus vs. Bos taurus humerus	HC.Dm	− 7.85	5.584	0.043	*
Ovis aries femur vs. Bos taurus femur	On.Dm	− 154.1	4.626	0.067	*
Ovis aries femur vs. Bos taurus femur	HC.Dm	− 7.67	26.781	3.26E-7	*
Bos taurus humerus vs. Bos taurus femur	On.Dm	− 278.3	11.435	1.94E-3	*
Bos taurus humerus vs. Bos taurus femur	HC.Dm	16.42	0.724	0.473	–

Cov covariance; F F statistical value of variance as the ratio of F between and F within groups; p significance value with Fcrit = 3.918; * significant value (p ˂ 0.05)