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. 2017 Nov 15;5:e4050. doi: 10.7717/peerj.4050

Table 3. Total developmental durations and adult size compared between feeding treatments.

Treatments were compared with Steel-Dwass pairwise tests (excluding treatment pair High-High–Low-High subject to predefined analysis of catch-up growth; see results). Significant P-values are shown in bold.

Treatment pair Males Females
Total duration of development Adult body size Total duration of development Adult body size
Z P (N) Z P (N) χ2 P (N) Z P (N)
High-High–Low-Low 10.42 <0.0001 (184) 9.06 <0.0001 (181) 284.84 <0.0001 (283) 13.55 <0.0001 (275)
High-High–High-Low 7.17 <0.0001 (182) 6.86 <0.0001 (179) 226.58 <0.0001 (296) 13.74 <0.0001 (285)
Low-Low–High-Low 7.24 <0.0001 (172) 5.32 0.0008 (168) 4.67 0.2 (267) 2.11 0.151 (262)
Low-Low–Low-High 6.47 <0.0001 (180) 4.92 <0.0001 (173) 108.55 <0.0001 (263) 12.26 <0.0001 (260)
High-Low–Low-High 0.15 0.999 (178) 0.95 0.776 (171) 71.9 <0.0001 (276) 12.14 <0.0001 (270)