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. 2017 Oct 23;12(10):e0186109. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0186109

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
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.