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. 2010 Nov 25;10:363. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-363

Table 3.

Karyotype and temperature effects on thermal preference.

Source of variation d.f. Mean Square F P
Covariate (plate hour) 1 147.947 11.84 < 0.001
Karyotype (κ) 5 60.774 4.97 0.002
Ost/O3+4* 1 0.853 0.07 0.793
O3+4*/O3+4* 2 42.884 3.51 0.043
Ost/Ost, Ost/O3+4*, O3+4*/O3+4* 2 106.330 8.70 0.001
  additive effect 1 205.854 16.85 < 0.001
  dominance effect 1 3.532 0.29 0.595
Cross ⊂ κ 30 12.220 0.98 0.502
Temperature (τ) 1 41.328 3.31 0.069
Sex (ς) 1 91.221 7.30 0.007
κ × τ 5 19.791 1.58 0.162
κ × ς 5 10.805 0.86 0.505
τ × ς 1 4.948 0.40 0.529
κ × τ × ς 5 8.863 0.71 0.617
Error 691 12.498

Flies raised from outbred crosses of Drosophila subobscura reared at 18°C and 22°C. Karyotypes being compared are Ost/Ost, O3+4/O3+4, O3+4+8/O3+4+8, Ost/O3+4, Ost/O3+4+8 and O3+4/O3+4+8. O3+4* stands for O3+4 + O3+4+8. (⊂ means "nested in".)