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. 2014 Dec 10;145(3):434–441. doi: 10.3945/jn.114.202531

FIGURE 3.

FIGURE 3

Cumulative reproductive success of female (A) and male (B) mice fed the fructose/glucose and sucrose diets for 40 wk before release into enclosures wherein all mice consumed the fructose/glucose diet during the 32-wk OPA competition. (A) Females initially fed the fructose/glucose diet produced 26.4% fewer offspring throughout the study than females fed sucrose before OPA release (P = 0.001) because of a consistent deficiency in offspring across pup sweeps. (B) No overall effect of initially consuming the fructose/glucose diet was seen in males. At the first pup sweeps males initially fed sucrose had higher reproduction, but this pattern was inverted for the second half of the study; post hoc tests indicated no significant differences at any given pup sweep. Values are means ± SEMs, n = 6. Because of a significant interaction between precompetition diet and time, the bar graphs are not interpretable for male data. *Indicates a P value < 0.05. F/G, fructose/glucose; OPA, organismal performance assay; S, sucrose.