Table 1.
Drosophila orena strongly prefer waterberry fruit over other suitable substrates
Species | Waterberry | Banana | Mango | χ2 | df | P‐value |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
D. melanogaster | 618 | 614 | 643 | 0.39 | 2 | 0.823 |
D. simulans | 314 | 334 | 290 | 1.56 | 2 | 0.468 |
D. teissieri | 70 | 513 | 197 | 200.88 | 2 | 0.000 |
D. yakuba | 186 | 299 | 306 | 18.78 | 2 | 8.0 × 10−5 |
D. orena | 154 | 27 | 12 | 87.96 | 2 | 0.000 |
The number of flies caught over each type of fruit was pooled across sample locations and replicates (see main text for details; Table S4 for numbers grouped by the elevation collected from).