Table 3. Parameters of female reproduction and viability of offspring in the control and stcP lines.

Age of females, days	Line	No of vials	Mean (s. e.)	Median	P values for comparisons with stcP line
					t test	Kruskal-Wallis test
No of eggs per female
3	Control	20	3.67 (0.44)	3.20	0.0122	0.0049
	stcP	20	2.04 (0.43)	1.25
20	Control	20	4.25 (0.91)	2.65	0.4711	0.7762
	stcP	20	3.54 (0.77)	2.85
40	Control	20	4.41 (0.97)	3.70	0.0069	0.0077
	stcP	20	2.28 (0.46)	1.60
60	Control	20	3.51 (0.74)	3.20	0.0004	0.0001
	stcP	20	0.36 (0.12)	0.11
No of imago offspring per female
3	Control	20	2.34 (0.28)	2.20	0.0188	0.0097
	stcP	20	1.34 (0.29)	0.75
20	Control	20	3.07 (0.69)	1.8	0.0190	0.1711
	stcP	20	1.71 (0.39)	1
40	Control	20	1.21 (0.27)	1	0.0007	0.0001
	stcP	20	0.42 (0.05)	0
60	Control	20	0.02 (0.02)	0	NA	NA
	stcP	20	0	0
Egg to pupa viability
3	Control	20	0.674 (0.035)	0.688	0.6229	0.7571
	stcP	20	0.705 (0.051)	0.686
20	Control	20	0.714 (0.037)	0.760	0.0012	0.0015
	stcP	20	0.485 (0.054)	0.516
40	Control	20	0.276 (0.042)	0.250	0.0001	0.0001
	stcP	20	0.030 (0.014)	0
60	Control	20	0	0	NA	NA
	stcP	20	0	0
Egg to imago viability
3	Control	20	0.655 (0.067)	0.685	0.9655	0.8286
	stcP	20	0.658 (0.047)	0.631
20	Control	20	0.696 (0.036)	0.688	0.0005	0.0005
	stcP	20	0.460 (0.050)	0.523
40	Control	20	0.267 (0.041)	0.250	0.0001	0.0001
	stcP	20	0.029 (0.014)	0
60	Control	20	0	0	NA	NA
	stcP	20	0	0

Standard errors were calculated from variance among vials.

Significant P-values are in bold.