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. 2019 Apr 9;10:152. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2019.00152

Table 2.

Average metamorphosis time for females and males in days.

Females ♀
Males ♂
Diet Adults n Mean ± SEM Median p-value Adult n Mean ± SEM Median p-value
Tetramin® 88 2.1 ± 0.03 2 61 2.1 ± 0.04 2
Pseudozyma sp. 46 3.0 ± 0.09 3 p < 0.0001 83 2.4 ± 0.05 2 p < 0.0001
S. cerevisiae 62 2.5 ± 0.06 2.5 p < 0.0001 87 2.5 ± 0.05 3 p < 0.0001
E. coli 29 2.4 ± 0.09 2 0.0002 58 2.2 ± 0.05 2 0.0865
S. marcescens 0 NA NA NA 2 NA NA NA
Bacillus sp. 0 NA NA NA 2 NA NA NA
Asaia sp. 16 2.1 ± 0.09 2 0.7867 25 2.0 ± 0.04 2 0.4904
S. aureus 5 2.6 ± 0.2 3 0.0013 11 2.4 ± 0.2 2 0.0098
O. intermedium 1 NA NA NA 7 2 ± 0 2 0.4347
Chlorella sp. 6 2 ± 0 2 p < 0.0001 21 2 ± 0 2 0.1784
A. platensis 9 2 ± 0 2 p < 0.0001 19 2 ± 0 2 0.2003

NA: Not available. Differences were analyzed with Log-rank and Wilcoxon.