Table 4.

Mean methylation rates in the four crossbreeding groups and three developmental stages analyzed in Experiment 2. As in Table 2, global methylation frequencies were calculated in two ways: as the proportion of methylated fragments out of all loci (column Global (1)) and as the proportion of methylated fragments out of the methylation‐sensitive loci (column Global (2)). Methylation levels of hemimethylated and internal cytosines are reported separately in the two rightmost columns

Crossbreeding group	Developmental stage	Global (1) (# methylated loci/(# MSL+# NML))	Global (2) (# methylated loci/# MSL)	Hemimethylated cytosines/# MSL	Internal cytosines/# MSL
♀LD × ♂LD	Larvae	0.103	0.199	0.119	0.079
	Pupae	0.115	0.220	0.132	0.088
	Adults	0.102	0.196	0.083	0.113
♀LD × ♂HD	Larvae	0.137	0.264	0.113	0.150
	Pupae	0.112	0.216	0.116	0.100
	Adults	0.119	0.230	0.108	0.121
♀HD × ♂LD	Larvae	0.114	0.219	0.128	0.091
	Pupae	0.116	0.224	0.131	0.093
	Adults	0.127	0.244	0.129	0.114
♀HD × ♂HD	Larvae	0.098	0.189	0.095	0.094
	Pupae	0.117	0.226	0.112	0.114
	Adults	0.127	0.244	0.135	0.108