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. 2023 Aug 7;13:12790. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-38153-2

Table 2.

Genomic composition and its lack of association with defensiveness. (A) Genomic composition (mean ± se) of honey bee workers sampled from each colony by site and (B) multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) of honey bee defensiveness measures as a function of African ancestry for each site.

BFS ECR
(A) Genomic composition
 African (A) 0.192 ± 0.019 0.382 ± 0.004
 Western European (M) 0.165 ± 0.004 0.190 ± 0.001
 Eastern European (C) 0.572 ± 0.022 0.369 ± 0.004
 Middle Eastern (O) 0.0718 ± 0.003 0.060 ± 0.001
Site Effect F NumDF DenDF P-value
(B) Defensiveness as a function of African ancestry in November
 BFS Size 0.86 6 2 0.627
African Ancestry 1.05 6 2 0.564
 ECR Size 2.47 6 2 0.316
African Ancestry 1.86 6 2 0.390