Table 3. Effective Mating, Relatedness, Sperm Count and Paternity Skew in the control and neonicotinoid treated honeybee (Apis mellifera) queens.
Colony | Colony source | N | Observed Effective Mating | Observed Relatedness | Corrected Effective Mating | Corrected Relatedness | Sperm Count (x106) | Paternity skew | |
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Control | 1 | 1C | 24 | 11.62 | 0.29 | 19.71 | 0.27 | 4.78 | 0.35 |
2 | 1C | 24 | 8.73 | 0.31 | 13.14 | 0.29 | 2.85 | 0.22 | |
3 | 1C | 24 | 11.52 | 0.29 | 21.23 | 0.27 | 5.78 | 0.32 | |
4 | 1C | 24 | 14.40 | 0.28 | 34.50 | 0.26 | 5.65 | 0.33 | |
5 | 1C | 24 | 10.67 | 0.30 | 18.40 | 0.28 | 3.13 | 0.38 | |
6 | 3C | 24 | 13.40 | 0.29 | 29.13 | 0.27 | 2.32 | 0.38 | |
7 | 3C | 20 | 10.53 | 0.30 | 21.11 | 0.27 | 6.45 | 0.36 | |
8 | 3C | 24 | 12.00 | 0.29 | 23.00 | 0.27 | 5.75 | 0.35 | |
9 | 3C | 22 | 6.72 | 0.32 | 9.24 | 0.30 | 6.50 | 0.35 | |
10 | 5C | 24 | 14.40 | 0.28 | 34.50 | 0.26 | 5.55 | 0.33 | |
11 | 5C | 22 | 15.13 | 0.28 | 46.20 | 0.26 | 4.95 | 0.32 | |
12 | 5C | 22 | 11.52 | 0.29 | 23.10 | 0.27 | 4.32 | 0.34 | |
Mean | 11.72 | 0.29 | 24.44 | 0.27 | 4.84 | 0.34 | |||
± SD | ± 2.44 | ± 0.01 | ± 10.18 | ± 0.01 | ± 1.40 | ± 0.01 | |||
Neonicotinoid | 1 | 2P | 24 | 8.73 | 0.31 | 13.14 | 0.29 | 2.95 | 0.32 |
2 | 2P | 24 | 9.93 | 0.30 | 16.23 | 0.28 | 4.77 | 0.36 | |
3 | 2P | 24 | 10.67 | 0.30 | 18.40 | 0.28 | 4.44 | 0.31 | |
4 | 4P | 24 | 13.09 | 0.29 | 27.60 | 0.27 | 0.87 | 0.22 | |
5 | 4P | 22 | 8.22 | 0.31 | 12.57 | 0.29 | 5.30 | 0.37 | |
6 | 4P | 23 | 9.28 | 0.30 | 14.88 | 0.28 | 2.37 | 0.27 | |
7 | 4P | 24 | 10.29 | 0.30 | 17.25 | 0.28 | 3.75 | 0.34 | |
8 | 4P | 20 | 5.26 | 0.34 | 6.79 | 0.32 | 4.97 | 0.33 | |
9 | 6P | 23 | 10.8 | 0.30 | 19.46 | 0.28 | 4.07 | 0.28 | |
10 | 6P | 24 | 8.00 | 0.31 | 11.50 | 0.29 | 7.25 | 0.38 | |
11 | 6P | 24 | 7.58 | 0.32 | 10.61 | 0.30 | 3.00 | 0.48 | |
12 | 6P | 24 | 8.47 | 0.31 | 12.54 | 0.29 | 5.65 | 0.56 | |
Mean | 9.19 | 0.31 | 15.08 | 0.29 | 4.11 | 0.35 | |||
± SD | ± 1.97 | ± 0.01 | ± 5.32 | ± 0.01 | ± 1.68 | ± 0.03 |
Observed Effective Mating = number of male mates if all are equally represented in the queen’s offspring; Corrected Effective Mating = Observed Effective Mating corrected for sampling size; Observed Relatedness = intracolonial genetic relatedness; Corrected Relatedness = intracolonial genetic relatedness corrected for sampling size.