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Treatments involved female or male treatment either at 25°C or 38°C for 4 h. The thin and thick horizontal lines within the boxes represent medians and means respectively. The asterisks (*) and octothorpes (#) indicate the significant differences between female or male heat treatments at different levels (# P<0.1; *P<0.05; **P<0.01, ***P<0.001).
