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. 2006 Jan;97(1):141–150. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcj012

Table 1.

Effect of bee species, donor and recipient floral morphology (pin versus thrum) and flower sequence on stigmatic pollen deposition, stigmatic dye deposition, and the ratio of pollen to dye per stigma

Pollen
Dye
Pollen : dye
Source d.f. SS F d.f. SS F d.f. SS F
Bee species 4 20·01 3·04* 4 38·0 4·61** 4 14·3 1·7
Donor morph 1 0·19 0·11 1 19·3 9·35** 1 18·2 8·65**
Recipient morph 1 2·28 1·39 1 16·3 7·88** 1 7·1 3·38
Flower number 1 15·2 9·24** 1 104·1 50·43**** 1 40·3 19·2****
Bee × flower 4 2·68 0·41 4 13·73 1·66 4 12·6 1·5
Bee × donor 1 0·02 0·01 1 0·36 0·17 1 0·0 0·0
Bee × recipient 3 1·62 0·33 3 9·6 1·55 3 3·6 0·6
Error 168 276·1 170 350·93 164 454·3
*

P < 0·05;

**

P < 0·01;

****

P < 0·00·1;

P = 0·07.