Table 1 Mean (± SD) number of intrinsic brood (eggs, larvae, pupae), imago workers and their total produced by the resident queen in the colonies 60 days after the transplantation of pupae
Transplantation (no. of pupae) | Eggs per colony | Larvae per colony | Pupae per colony | Workers per colony | Total intrinsic production per colony | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean (SD) | Two-way ANOVA | Mean (SD) | Two-way ANOVA | Mean (SD) | Two-way ANOVA | Mean (SD) | Two-way ANOVA | Mean (SD) | Two-way ANOVA | |
0 | 9.1 (5.43) | F(2, 41) = 140.3 | 8.7 (5.10) | F(2, 41) = 61.1 | 6.8 (3.64) | F(2, 41) = 233.8 | 15.73 (5.22) | F(2,41) = 1309.9 | 40.4 (13.07) | F(2.41) = 1059.4 |
P < 0.0001 | P < 0.0001 | P < 0.0001 | P < 0.0001 | |||||||
P < 0.0001 | ||||||||||
100 | 19.8 (2.19) | 19.9 (2.54) | 16.4 (3.71) | 87.4 (5.79) | 143.6 (8.87) | |||||
300 | 36.7 (5.09) | 32.0 (8.09) | 40.6 (5.45) | 126.4 (7.42) | 235.8 (12.94) | |||||
Eggs before transplantation | F(1, 41) = 0.1 | F(1,41) = 1.2 | F(1,41) = 0.0 | F(1,41) = 3.4 | F(1,41) = 2.5 | |||||
P = 0.11 | ||||||||||
P = 0.07 | ||||||||||
P = 0.99 | ||||||||||
P = 0.26 | ||||||||||
P = 0.81 | ||||||||||
Whole model | F(3, 41) = 94.1 | F(3, 41) = 42.0 | F(3, 41) =156.4 | F(3, 41) = 882.3 | F(3, 41) =713.4 | |||||
P < 0.0001 | P < 0.0001 | P < 0.0001 | P < 0.0001 | |||||||
P < 0.0001 | ||||||||||