Figure 4: Comparison of the observed proportional investment in female alates between species with and without AQS. | Nature Communications

Figure 4: Comparison of the observed proportional investment in female alates between species with and without AQS.

From: Sex ratio biases in termites provide evidence for kin selection

Figure 4

The species with AQS are R. speratus (N=107 colonies) and R. virginicus (N=16) and those without AQS are R. flavipes (N=43), R. okinawanus (N=11) and R. yaeyamanus (N=7). The AQS species (open bars) showed significantly female-biased investment in comparison with non-AQS species (closed bars) (GLM, P<0.0001). Error bars indicate standard errors. The statistics on the bars indicate the significance level of the deviation from equal allocation (two-tailed t-test: ***P<0.001; *P<0.05).

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