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. 2018 Aug 1;285(1884):20180466. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2018.0466

Table 1.

Effects of attack intensity, diet quality and their interaction on the different components of fitness and defensive behaviour. (Traits with significant effects of fixed factors are noted with asterisks. *p < 0.05.)

traits fixed factors
diet quality attack intensity diet × predation
immunological costs
 PO activity
(n = 147, 12 families)
0.088 ± 0.275,
t = 0.320, p = 0.749
0.022 ± 0.310,
t = 0.071, p = 0.944
−1.256 ± 0.426,
t = −2.946, p = 0.003*
 encapsulation rate
(n = 130, 12 families)
F1,117.23 = 0.8246,
p = 0.366
F1,121.20 = 0.056,
p = 0.809
F1,119.73 = 0.280,
p = 0.598
costs in performance
 female growth rate
(n = 66, nine families)
F1,57.220 = 0.198,
p = 0.658
F1,58.65 = 3.441,
p = 0.069
F1,56.79 = 6.171,
p = 0.016*
 male growth rate
(n = 89, 12 families)
F1,75.78 = 5.5685,
p = 0.021*
F1,76.66 = 0.387,
p = 0.536
F1,75.26 = 5.102,
p = 0.027*
 survival to pupal stage (n = 213, 12 families) 0.588 ± 0.593,
Z = 0.991, p = 0.322
−1.608 ± 0.643,
Z =−2.502, p = 0.013*
0.052 ± 0.762,
Z = 0.069, p = 0.945
contribution to cooperative defence behaviour
 probability to defend in groups at the age of 14–16 days (n = 451, 12 families) −0.844 ± 0.425,
Z = −1.98, p = 0.047*
−2.159 ± 0.401,
Z = −5.379, p < 0.001*
1.509 ± 0.524,
Z = 2.881, p = 0.004*
potency of chemical defence
 volume of defensive fluid
at the age of 14–16 days
(n = 452, 12 families)
−0.308 ± 0.214,
t = −1.438, p = 0.150
−1.486 ± 0.214,
t = −6.942, p < 0.001*
0.834 ± 0.307,
t = 2.716, p = 0.007*
 volume of defensive fluid
at the age of 21–23 days
(n = 201, 12 families)
−0.242 ± 0.295,
t = −0.823, p = 0.411
−1.272 ± 0.305,
t = −4.165, p < 0.001*
0.310 ± 0.434,
t = −4.165, p < 0.001*
 monoterpene concentration
at the age of 21–23 days
(n = 79, 11 families)
−0.032 ± 0.298,
t = −0.106, p = 0.916
−0.586 ± 0.280,
t = −2.097, p = 0.036*
−0.373 ± 0.410,
t = −0.911, p = 0.362
 other terpene concentration at the age of 21–23 days
(n = 79, 11 families)
0.121 ± 0.302,
t = 0.400, p = 0.689
−0.210 ± 0.288,
t = −0.729, p = 0.466
−0.378 ± 0.427,
t = −0.884, p = 0.377