. 2020 Nov 30;11:617237. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2020.617237

Table 2.

Effects of dietary dsTOR and dsGFP (control) on offspring number, hatching rate, gender ratio, and population growth index (PGI).

Treatments^a	Number of offspring^b	Hatching rate^c	Sex ratio^c	PGI (N1/N0)^d
dsGFP	209.8 ± 13.6^a	0.78 ± 0.04^a	1.10 ± 0.06^a	33.8 ± 2.72^a
dsTOR	114.0 ± 12.4^b	0.67 ± 0.05^b	1.01 ± 0.06^a	21.2 ± 1.89^b

Treatments included: dsTOR treated females mated with untreated males (treatment group); and dsGFP-treated females mated with untreated males (control group).

Values labeled with different letters indicate a significant difference at p < 0.05 by the Student’s t-test.

Hatch rates and sex ratios were calculated as described by Ge et al. (2019).

The PGI was expressed by the ratio N1/N0; this was determined by dividing the total number (N1) of adults of next generation + unhatched eggs by the number of adults released (N0 = 8, 4 pairs).