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Table 2.

Irradiation of newly emerged adults (1 day old), their fecundity, and egg viability.

Host fruit	Nominal dose	Replicates	Absorbed dose (mean ± SE) [min, max]		No. 1d-old adults treated	Total no. eggs laid	No. eggs/five fruit (mean ± SE)^a	No. emerged F1 adults (mean ± SE)
Host fruit	Nominal dose	Replicates	Bottom (Gy)	Top (Gy)	No. 1d-old adults treated	Total no. eggs laid	No. eggs/five fruit (mean ± SE)^a	Males	Females
Blueberry	0 Gy	4	0	0	200	5921	1480 ± 462 A	308	643
	20 Gy	8	20.9 ± 0.3 [19.1, 22.6]	22.8 ± 0.3 [21.3, 24.2]	400	1419	177 ± 27 B	107	90
	72 Gy	8	70.7 ± 1.7 [66.1, 81.0]	74.7 ± 1.2 [71.2, 82.3]	400	314	39 ± 23 C	0	0

^aDifferent letters indicate statistically significant differences (estimated marginal means contrasts, p < 0.05).