. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Oct 1.

Published in final edited form as: Exp Gerontol. 2008 Aug 12;43(10):900–908. doi: 10.1016/j.exger.2008.08.005

Table 1.

When offered Romaine lettuce ad libitum, ovariectomized females and sham operated controls of the lubber grasshopper consumed similar amounts. Surgeries were performed during the first three days of adulthood. Individual lifetime profiles of amount eaten (see Fig. 1 for group profiles) were fit with 5^th order polynomial equations. These equations explain ∼70% of the variation in the data set. The coefficients of these equations are shown in the table and were compared using MANOVA. In the table, F refers to the MANOVA test statistic and P is the probability that these results could be produced by chance. None of the coefficients were significantly affected by surgery.

	OV-	Sham	F	P
x⁵	0.0000±0.0001	0.0000±0.0000	0.04	0.848
x⁴	0.0003±0.0022	0.0012±0.0019	0.27	0.608
x³	0.0136±0.0264	0.0098±0.0253	0.41	0.523
x²	0.1384±0.1533	0.0369±0.1624	0.61	0.436
x	0.2519±0.4582	0.3295±0.4986	0.73	0.395
b	4.4701±0.5566	5.0225±0.5563	0.49	0.485
r²	0.7329±0.0208	0.6756±0.0288