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. 2019 Dec 17;7:e8197. doi: 10.7717/peerj.8197

Table 1. Three-way ANOVA to assess the effect of genotype and the dispersal status (i.e. difference between dispersers and residents) on three movement metrics: activity (proportion of moving cells), movement speed and linearity.

Genotype and dispersal status were considered as crossed and fixed effects, and replicate as random effect nested in genotype but crossed with dispersal status because data from the two status were paired per replicate (i.e. the start and target tubes of one dispersal system). The column ‘denominator for F-test’ indicates the error term used to test for each effect, according to the ANOVA model; ‘–’ denote the factors that cannot be tested because the error has no degrees of freedom in this model.

Response variable Activity Speed: ln (speed) Linearity: ln (tau)
Factor Denominator for F-test DF SS MS F value p SS MS F value p SS MS F value p
Genotype Replicate (genotype) 43 0.872 0.020 2.88 <0.0001 24.927 0.580 12.40 <0.0001 24.666 0.574 7.50 <0.0001
Dispersal status (disperser vs. resident) Replicate × dispersal status (genotype) 1 0.186 0.186 42.88 <0.0001 3.193 3.193 149.28 <0.0001 6.718 6.718 93.19 <0.0001
Genotype × dispersal status Replicate × dispersal status (genotype) 43 0.445 0.010 2.39 0.0003 3.977 0.092 4.32 <0.0001 7.036 0.164 2.27 0.0006
Replicate (genotype) Error 87 0.612 0.007 4.067 0.047 6.653 0.076
Replicate × dispersal status (genotype) Error 87 0.377 0.004 1.862 0.021 6.272 0.072
Error na 0 0 0 0
Total 261 2.490 38.020 51.317