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. 2015 Dec 3;5:17676. doi: 10.1038/srep17676

Figure 3. Attraction of SB347 females and males to the opposite sex.

Figure 3

(a) Virgin females (VF), but not mated females (MF) or hermaphrodites (H), are attracted to supernatant of males (one-way ANOVA, ***P < 0.001). (b) The percentage of males that attempt to mate is higher when they are exposed to females (F) than to hermaphrodites (H) (t-test(6) = 6.1, ***P < 0.001). (c) The percentage of males that attempt to mate to females increases over time after mating. (d) Chemotaxis index (CI) of males to females in the fourth larval stage (L4) or as adults (see Materials and Methods for how to calculate CI). (e) Percentage of males attracted to unablated animals (wild type), and ablated animals for precursors of germline (Z2 & Z3), vulva precursor cells (VPC) and precursors of somatic gonad (Z1 & Z4). The CI value ± SEM is below the graph. The graphs in (a,b–e) represent the mean ± SEM of ten independent experiments with 15 males each. The graphs in (b,c) represent the mean ± SEM of five independent experiments.