Table 3. Scaling relationship between wet body mass and metabolic rate for male and female bees engaged in continuous and discontinuous gas exchange.

Sex	Gas exchange	Log10 slope	Log10 intercept	Mass scaling relationship	Regression equation
Male	Continuous (CGE)	1.78	−0.77	MR = 0.170 × M1.78	R2 = 0.432, F1,6 = 3.804, p = 0.109
	Discontinuous (DGE)	1.05	−0.07	MR = 0.851 × M1.05	R2 = 0.278, F1,40 = 15.021, p < 0.001
Female	Continuous (CGE)	1.24	0.03	MR = 1.072 × M1.24	R2 = 0.557, F1,16 = 18.837, p < 0.001
	Discontinuous (DGE)	0.66	0.46	MR = 2.884 × M0.66	R2 = 0.136, F1,35 = 5.374, p = 0.027