Table 3.
Experiment | N | Outcome | Parameter | β ± SEM | P |
Ifakara strain only | |||||
1 & 2 | 91 | Oviposition† | Intercept | -16.5± 5.6 | <0.001 |
Size | 5.4 ± 1.8 | 0.001 | |||
Competition | -1.44 ± 0.59 | 0.009 | |||
2 | 46 | Insemination† | Intercept | -38.1 ± 10.7 | <0.001 |
Size | 13.1 ± 3.7 | <0.001 | |||
Competition | 1.91 ± 1.0 | 0.034 | |||
Oviposition after insemination† | Intercept | 0.15 ± 0.56 | 0.782 | ||
Competition | -1.95 ± 0.95 | 0.024 | |||
All four male-female combinations of Ifakara and Mbita strains | |||||
3 | 180 | Insemination† | Intercept | -13.0 ± 3.4 | <0.001 |
Competition | 2.37 ± 0.38 | <0.001 | |||
Size | 3.98 ± 1.12 | <0.001 | |||
180 | Oviposition† | Intercept | -10.2 ± 3.1 | 0.001 | |
Competition | 1.83 ± 0.34 | <0.001 | |||
Size | 3.06 ± 1.01 | 0.003 | |||
94 | Oviposition after insemination† | Intercept | 2.52 ± 0.39 | <0.001 | |
87 | Egg batch size of ovipositors‡ | Intercept | -1.16 ± 0.47 | 0.017 | |
Size | 0.94 ± 0.15 | <0.001 |
* Size was measured as wing length (mm) and male competition was either low or high (5 versus 50 males per cage, respectively, with 30 females). † Logistic regression model fitted by forward conditional stepwise selection ‡ Generalized linear model fitted manually including only terms found to be significant upon testing all candidates. The size of egg batches was log-normally distributed and correspondingly transformed so parameter estimates refer to their influence upon Log 10 (egg batch size +1).