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. 2019 Apr 16;9:6113. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-42559-2

Table 2.

Population growth parameters of different P. xylostella strains.

Biological characteristics Fuzhou-S Fuzhou-R2Ad F1 F1' F value P
Initial amount of eggs 140 186 118 87
Egg hatch (%) 80.72 ± 1.22bB 87.08 ± 0.36aA 82.26 ± 0.57bAB 74.57 ± 0.97cC 36.82 0.0001
Survival rate 1st instar (%) 90.30 ± 0.5aA 67.25 ± 0.59cC 82.82 ± 0.89bB 85.01 ± 1.27bAB 127.19 0.0001
Survival rate 2nd instar (%) 57.80 ± 0.77cC 58.71 ± 0.19cC 97.57 ± 1.22aA 85.74 ± 1.01bB 498.22 0.0001
Survival rate 3rd instar (%) 93.23 ± 1.63bB 100.00 ± 0.12aA 96.30 ± 0.15abAB 100.00 ± 1.03aA 15.99 0.0010
Survival rate 4th instar (%) 91.00 ± 1.59aA 74.90 ± 1.97cC 84.22 ± 0.54bAB 76.59 ± 1.05cBC 28.22 0.0001
Number of pupae 17.00 ± 0.67abAB 16.00 ± 1.00abAB 21.00 ± 1.00aA 12.00 ± 2.08bB 8.02 0.0085
Pupation rate (%) 33.42 ± 1.62cC 25.77 ± 1.02cC 53.71 ± 1.47bB 83.98 ± 2.46aA 227.33 0.0001
Adult number 14 ± 0.67abAB 12 ± 0.58bAB 18.00 ± 1.00aA 10 ± 1.53bB 11.49 0.0029
Emergence rate (%) 86.11 ± 3.87aA 75.18 ± 2.43aA 86.42 ± 0.72aA 83.99 ± 2.46aA 4.06 0.0502
Sexual ratio (female:male) 1.17aA 1.00aA 1.31aA 1.50aA
Fecundity/female 102 ± 3.67abAB 91 ± 5.29bAB 129 ± 7.21aA 82 ± 8.97bB 9.65 0.0049
Number of offspring eggs 1414 546 1062 574
R0 10.10 2.93 9.00 6.60
Relative fitness 1.00* 0.29 0.89 0.65

According to one-way with post-hoc Tukey’s honestly significant difference, the same superscript letter following the numbers between rows of a given column indicates no significant difference between the strains at P > 0.05. The different upper and lower case letters stand for the significance with P < 0.01, and P < 0.05, respectively.

*Relative fitness of the susceptible Fuzhou-S strain is defined as 1.