From: Worthless donations: male deception and female counter play in a nuptial gift-giving spider
PG | FG | WG | NG | Statistics | |||
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P | DF | ||||||
% Egg hatching success | 0.66 ± 0.10 a (nes = 12) | 0.50 ± 0.15 a (nes = 11) | 0.48 ± 0.13 a (nes = 8) | 0.33 ± 0.33 b (nes = 3) | χ2yates = 91.4 | <0.0001 | 3 |
Clutch-size | 45.5 ± 4.5 a (nes = 12) | 38.0 ± 4.7 a (nes = 11) | 43.8 ± 5.5 a (nes = 8) | 27.3 ± 9.0 a (nes = 3) | F = 1.30 | 0.29 | 3 |
Number of spiderlings per egg-sac | 31.7 ± 6.1 a (nes = 12) | 18.2 ± 6.5 a (nes = 11) | 23.7 ± 7.6 a (nes = 8) | 6.3 ± 12.3 a (nes = 3) | F = 1.45 | 0.24 | 3 |
Size of spiderlings (mm+SE) | 0.649 ± 0.003 a (nsp = 211; nes = 12) | 0.672 ± 0.004 b (nsp = 107; nes = 7) | 0.674 ± 0.004 b (nsp = 103; nes = 7) | n/a | χ2overall = 86.92 χ2group= 56.11 χ2clutch-size = 52.49 χ2group*clutch-size= 27.56 | <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001 <0.0001 | 5 2 1 2 |