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. 2009 Feb 25;276(1661):1517–1526. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1288

Table 2.

Regression analysis of the effects of latitude on population means for the traits, including confidence intervals for the proportion of variation explained by latitude. (Significant associations are italicized.)

species trait slope R2 p-value lower CI upper CI
D. serrata cold, femalesa −0.586 0.306 0.017 0.168 0.412
desiccation, femalesa −0.016 0.004 0.798 0.000 0.082
starvation, femalesa 0.234 0.053 0.372 0.000 0.258
starvation, malesa 0.486 0.365 0.010 0.044 0.524
development timeb 0.034 0.404 0.048 0.264 0.540
wing size, malesa 0.133c 0.907 <0.001 0.865 0.931
wing size, femalesa 0.117c 0.928 <0.001 0.887 0.941
microsatellitesd −10.130 0.209 0.036 0.222
D. birchii cold, females 2002e 0.030 0.003 0.868 0.000 0.224
cold, females 2004 0.032 0.002 0.924 0.000 0.009
desiccation, females 2002f 0.334 0.478 0.018 0.266 0.611
desiccation, females 2004 0.197 0.560 0.051 0.159 0.781
starvation, femalese 2.854 0.461 0.022 0.310 0.557
heat, femalese 0.082 0.086 0.380 0.000 0.309
development time, femalese 1.560 0.250 0.117 0.087 0.415
development time, malese 1.073 0.141 0.255 0.026 0.293
wing size, femalese −0.290 0.009 0.777 0.000 0.126
microsatellitesg 1.857 0.078 0.028 0.144
D. bunnanda cold, females 0.332 0.142 0.532 0.000 0.806
cold, males 1.785 0.685 0.084 0.019 0.929
desiccation, females 0.067 0.033 0.772 0.000 0.514
desiccation, males −0.170 0.380 0.268 0.003 0.846
wing size, females 1.983 0.323 0.317 0.071 0.605
wing size, males 1.571 0.206 0.443 0.065 0.606
microsatellites −0.797 0.061 0.023 0.166
a

Data from Hallas et al. (2002).

b

Data from Sgrò & Blows (2003).

c

Logarithmic relationship.

d

Excluding locus D34.