TABLE 3.

Effects of nutritional status during sexual maturation (poor‐fed vs. well‐fed), resource acquisition during breeding (small vs. large carcass) of male burying beetles, and their interaction on final weight (the body weight of males after breeding), weight change (the weight change of males during breeding), larvae number, and average larval mass at dispersal.

Explanatory variable	Final weight		Weight change		Larvae number		Average larval mass
	F	p	F	p	χ 2	p	χ 2	p
Nutritional status	4.025	0.047	70.115	< 0.001	0.416	0.518	0.123	0.726
Resource acquisition	35.006	< 0.001	58.018	< 0.001	56.145	< 0.001	5.979	0.016
Interaction	4.119	0.045	17.140	< 0.001	0.176	0.675	0.037	0.847

Note: Poor‐fed versus well‐fed, mealworm‐fed versus mouse carcass‐fed; Small versus large carcass, 8.34 ± 0.58 g versus 15.41 ± 0.72 g. Degree of freedoms are all equal to 1; Significant p‐values are indicated in bold. The sample size, mean value, and standard deviation are provided in Table S2.