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. 2018 May 16;6:e4721. doi: 10.7717/peerj.4721

Table 3. Effects of temperature, sex and head size or body weight on the Julian date of emergence of O. cornuta and O. bicornis.

We compared three different temperature treatments (warm vs. medium vs. cold overwintering temperature treatment). Body weight was corrected for body size [mg/mm2]. Non-significant predictors (p > 0.05) were removed from the model in a manual stepwise model selection. Julian date 100 = 10th of April.

O. cornuta O. bicornis
Df F p Df F p
Julian date of emergence Julian date of emergence
Temperature 2 3,641.46 <0.001 Temperature 2 3,499.88 <0.001
Sex 1 794.33 <0.001 Sex 1 3,977.72 <0.001
Head size 1 16.83 <0.001 Head size 1 26.70 <0.001
Temperature : Sex 2 80.84 <0.001 Temperature : Sex 2 47.11 <0.001
Temperature : Head size 2 5.98 0.003
Sex : Head size 1 0.01 0.921
Temperature : Sex : Head size 2 3.15 0.043
Julian date of emergence Julian date of emergence
Temperature 2 3,868.56 <0.001 Temperature 2 3,734.16 <0.001
Sex 1 843.87 <0.001 Sex 1 4,243.99 <0.001
Body weight 1 74.83 <0.001 Body weight 1 76.39 <0.001
Temperature : Sex 2 77.91 <0.001 Temperature : Sex 2 46.95 <0.001
Temperature : Body weight 2 3.60 0.028 Temperature : Body weight 2 8.39 <0.001
Sex : Body weight 1 0.01 0.913
Temperature: Sex : Body weight 2 8.84 <0.001