Figure 2. Chimeric slugs travel less far than clonal slugs but lose cells over distance at a similar rate.

(A) Using the clonal migration distances from Fig. 1, we calculated the expected migration distances for chimeric slugs that developed from the same total number of cells. The Tukey boxplots show that migration distance for chimeric slugs were lower compared to clonal slugs (observed mean = 5.50 ± 0.24 cm, expected mean = 6.19 ± 0.20; 1-way nested ANOVA: F_1,49 = 17.89, P < 0.001). (B) However, the decreased migration did not seem to affect spore production as there was not a significant difference in the number of spores lost per cm traveled between clonal and chimeric fruiting bodies after migrating (1-way nested ANOVA: F_1,93 = 0.83, P = 0.365).