FIG 5.

Variation in total reproduction and of relative fitness of naturalistic oral infections of insect larvae. (A) Final population size measured as spore productivity per unit weight of insects for different pherotypes, namely, the QS knockout null mutant ΔpapRplcR and the QS wild type; boxplots with different letters indicate pherotypes that are significantly different in post hoc treatment contrasts. (B) Variation in fitness with frequency of competitors in two sets of competition experiments with different pherotype pairs; data are means ± SE with fitted models for each competition treatment.