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) |