Table 2 Lifetime, fecundity (oviposition) and fertility (offspring) of SWD pairs inoculated with T. suzukii spores at adult stage.

From: Infection effects of the new microsporidian species Tubulinosema suzukii on its host Drosophila suzukii

ID

Treatment

R/N

Eggs/pair/lifetime in days (§)

SEM

Offspring (§)

SEM

P (eggs-offspring)

Sex ratio offspring ♀/♂

N (sex ratio)

P (sex ratio)

C

u♀ × u♂

4/17

152.9 (A)

19.43

132.2 (A)

19.3

 > 0.05,

T = 0.75

0.51/0.49

1139

 > 0.05,

χ2 = 0.46

MF

i♀ × i♂

4/31

107.6 (A)

12.43

88.0 (A)

10.6

 > 0.05,

W = 573.5

0.54/0.46

1405

 < 0.05,

χ2 = 9.08

 

P, test

 

0.059,

T =  − 1.96

 

0.055,

T =  − 2.01

     
  1. Sex ratio of resulting offspring was determined after eclosion of progeny. ID = treatment abbreviation (C = untreated control, MF = both infected), treatment: ♀ = female, ♂ = male, u = uninfected, i = infected, R/N = number of replicates and total pairs, (§) = significance letter (< 0.05), SEM = standard error of mean, N (sex ratio) = total number of offspring analysed for sex. Lifetime, eggs/pair/lifetime, eggs/pair/10 days, offspring are shown as mean.
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