Fig. 4: Presence of mature queens or RNERO inhibits the development of new queens from female nymphs.
From: Identification of a queen primer pheromone in higher termites
a Design of queen inhibition experiment with colony G. b Cumulative numbers of new NQs in solvent control and under different treatments. The highly significant overall difference among all curves (Mantel–Cox test, χ2 = 17.24, df = 3, p = 6 × 10−4) was mainly due to significant differences of 10NQ and 10QE treatments from the control. Different lowercase letters indicate significant differences at α = 0.05 corrected using Sidak correction for multiple comparisons (pairwise Mantel–Cox test comparisons). c Median numbers (and quartiles) of new NQs per one experimental group, showing significant overall differences (K–W rank-sum test, H = 10.24, groups = 4, n = 20, p = 1.67 × 10−2). Different lowercase letters indicate significant pairwise differences at α = 0.05 in Dunn’s Multiple Comparison Test. d Pie chart shows the number of NY4 found in the colony (pie size) and the proportion of males among NY4. Left column shows the proportion of sexually (sex) and parthenogenetically (asex) produced NY4♀ in the genotyped subset of females that entered the experiment. Right column shows the proportion of sexually and parthenogenetically produced NQs that developed in the experiment.
