TABLE 3.
Analysis of the fitness increase for each bacteriophage species relative to the ancestral population in the selected environment (growth at 43°), using a Student's t-test
| Species | Line | ![]() |
t-value | d.f. | P-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MS2 | 1 | 9.92 | 49.363 | 3 | 1.83e-05 |
| 2 | 8.87 | 39.875 | 3 | 3.47e-05 | |
| 3 | 9.24 | 26.056 | 3 | 0.000124 | |
| NL95 | 1 | 1.36 | 8.557 | 3 | 0.00335 |
| 2 | 3.33 | 26.995 | 3 | 0.000112 | |
| 3 | 3.87 | 20.746 | 3 | 0.000245 | |
| fr | 1 | 6.16 | 52.479 | 3 | 1.52e-05 |
is the mean relative fitness across replicates. d.f., degrees of freedom.
