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. 2021 Apr 27;12:2453. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-22712-0

Fig. 3. Mating acceleration depends on visual cues.

Fig. 3

a Mating of an Orco1 mutant is affected by exposure to L. boulardi. p = 0.0001, two-tailed Mann–Whitney test, n = 79 (exposed), 76 (unexposed). Error bars = SEM. b Left, competition experiments between an exposed Orco1 male and an unexposed Orco1 male, for an Orco1 female (p = 0.9042, chi-squared test, n = 69). Right, an exposed Orco1 female and an unexposed Orco1 female are placed in an arena with an Orco1 male (p = 0.0389, chi-squared test, n = 60). Dark shading indicates the percentage of cases in which the exposed animal mated. c An Ir8a; Orco1 double mutant is affected by exposure to L. boulardi. n = 66 (exposed), 67 (unexposed), p = 0.0085. d Left, competition experiments between an exposed and unexposed IR8a; Orco1 male, for an IR8a; Orco1 female (p = 0.8974, chi-squared test, n = 60). Right, an exposed and unexposed IR8a; Orco1 female are placed in an arena with an IR8a; Orco1 male (p = 0.0223, chi-squared test, n = 62). e A ninaB1 mutant is not affected by exposure to L. boulardi under room light, n = 67 (exposed), 66 (unexposed), p = 0.7904. We note that this mutant is slow to mate. f ninaB1 is not affected by exposure to L. heterotoma under room light, n = 69 (exposed), 68 (unexposed), p = 0.9598. 2 male and 2 female wasps were used in ej. g Our Canton-S wild type strain is not affected by exposure to L. boulardi under dim red light n = 74 (exposed), 74 (unexposed), p = 0.195. h Canton-S is not affected by exposure to L. heterotoma under dim red light n = 74 (exposed), 74 (unexposed), p = 0.6537. i Canton-S is affected by exposure to L. boulardi under green light, n = 68 (exposed), 68 (unexposed), p < 0.0001. j Our Canton-S wild-type strain is affected by exposure to L. heterotoma under green light, n = 64 (exposed), n = 65 (unexposed), p = 0.0005. k Exposure to L. boulardi affects copulation latency of parental control TNT: n = 63 (exposed), 63 (unexposed), p = 0.0001. l Exposure to L. boulardi affects copulation latency of parental control LC4: n = 82 (exposed), 79 (unexposed), p = 0.0076. mp Flies in which LC4 neurons are blocked with TNT are not affected by exposure to the indicated four species of wasps: in m (L. boulardi), n = 84 (exposed), 78 (unexposed), p = 0.6211; in n (L. heterotoma), n = 80 (exposed), 78 (unexposed), p = 0.6289; in o (Trichopria drosophilae), n = 90 (exposed), 81 (unexposed), p = 0.4496; in p (Asobara tabida), n = 85 (exposed), 81 (unexposed), p = 0.643. Error bars in c, ep are SEM. The statistical test used in c, ep is a two-tailed Mann–Whitney test.