Table 3 Compatibility of crosses between Cardinium–Wolbachia double-infected (Tp^CW+) and antibiotic-treated (Tp^CW−) colonies, crosses between Cardinium-infected (Tp^C+) and antibiotic-treated (Tp^C−) colonies and crosses between Wolbachia-infected (Tp^W+) and antibiotic-treated (Tp^W−) colonies in the Hitachiohta population of Tetranychus pueraricola

Cross	N^a	No. of eggs/female	Hatchability (%)	Survival rate in immature stages (%)	% Female offspring
Female × Male
Cardinium-Wolbachia (double-infected)
Tp^CW+ × Tp^CW+	14	38.2±1.90	97.4±0.71 a	96.6±0.68	78.7±0.81 ab
Tp^CW+ × Tp^CW−	21	41.8±1.31	96.1±0.97 a	93.9±1.03	78.0±0.52 a
Tp^CW− × Tp^CW+	31	41.0±1.13	94.3±0.85 a	95.8±0.80	78.9±0.83 ab
Tp^CW− × Tp^CW−	27	41.0±1.00	97.3±0.83 a	95.0±0.91	81.0±0.61 b
F_3,89 ^b		1.131 NS	2.960^*	0.726 NS	3.221^*
Cardinium-infected (Wolbachia were eliminated by heat treatment)
Tp^C+ × Tp^C+	21	42.8±1.48	93.4±1.01	96.2±1.01	84.2±0.79
Tp^C+ × Tp^C−	22	44.6±0.82	94.9±0.97	95.6±0.97	84.7±0.45
Tp^C− × Tp^C+	23	43.2±1.11	96.8±0.89	96.2±0.99	84.1±0.65
Tp^C− × Tp^C−	22	43.7±1.19	96.1±1.04	96.9±0.99	84.8±0.63
F_3,84		0.551 NS	2.384 NS	0.578 NS	0.328 NS
Wolbachia-infected (Cardinium were eliminated by penicillin treatment)
Tp^W+ × Tp^W+	25	41.9±1.30	95.2±0.98	94.2±1.33	82.6±0.86
Tp^W+ × Tp^W−	24	42.1±1.05	94.2±1.06	96.1±0.90	82.1±0.84
Tp^W− × Tp^W+	20	45.2±0.67	95.6±0.96	95.6±1.39	84.0±0.70
Tp^W− × Tp^W−	23	45.0±0.81	92.4±1.13	96.2±1.08	81.4±0.94
F_3,88		2.148 NS	1.964 NS	0.457 NS	1.469 NS

^aNumber of pairs tested.
^bMeans (±SE) differ significantly at P<0.05 (^*) (ANOVA); NS, not significant at the 5% level. Values in a column followed by the same letters are not significantly different at the 5% level (Tukey HSD test).

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