Table 3.
Results combined over all strains on a slope, testing for interslope differences in mutation frequency
| Slope from which strains were obtained | No. of strains from that slope | Conidial color mutants ± SE, % | Morphological mutants ± SE, % | Total mutants ± SE, % | Total colonies | Wilcoxon rank sum tests for the difference between slopes |
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| Conidial color mutation | Morphological mutation | Total of both types | ||||||
| P. lanosum | ||||||||
| ES/NFS | 6 | 1.11 ± 0.31 | 0.49 ± 0.11 | 1.60 ± 0.36 | 26,479 | 21* | 21* | 21* |
| AS/SFS | 5 | 4.74 ± 0.84 | 4.34 ± 1.03 | 9.08 ± 1.00 | 32,779 | 45* | 45* | 45* |
| A. niger | ||||||||
| ES/NFS | 3 | 0.48 ± 0.16 | 0.47 ± 0.25 | 0.95 ± 0.33 | 31,721 | 11† | 6‡ | 6‡ |
| AS/SFS | 6 | 1.17 ± 0.27 | 2.52 ± 0.35 | 3.68 ± 0.46 | 51,131 | 34† | 39‡ | 39‡ |
*, P = 0.0022; †, P = 0.1905; ‡, P = 0.0119.