Table 4. Maximum flight duration versus queen morphology.
A. Quantile Regressions | |||||
Intercept | Slope | p | Corr. p | ||
Abdomen mass | 6742.350 | -1096.915 | 0.024 | 0.054 | |
Log flight muscle ratio | 11633.347 | 12015.789 | 0.031 | 0.054 | |
Wing loading | 8988.231 | -30815.385 | 0.018 | 0.054 | |
B. Ordinary Least Squares Regressions | |||||
r2 | Intercept | Slope | p | Corr. p | |
Abdomen mass | 0.05 | 3202.1 | -364.5 | 0.21 | 0.63 |
Log flight muscle ratio | 0.02 | 4377 | 3405 | 0.41 | 0.68 |
Wing loading | 0.03 | 3345 | -7552 | 0.34 | 0.68 |
C. Spearman's Rank Correlations | |||||
rs | p | Corr. p | |||
Abdomen mass | -0.27 | 0.14 | 0.42 | ||
Log flight muscle ratio | 0.22 | 0.22 | 0.42 | ||
Wing loading | -0.26 | 0.16 | 0.42 |
All regressions were performed on S. invicta (n = 32).
Quantile regressions are through the upper quartile.
Corr. p shows p values corrected for experimentwise error.