highly significantP < 0.0001
This is a highly significant increase in male production by treated females (two-tailed Fisher’s exact test; P < 0.0001, odds ratio = 71.8 with 95% confidence interval of 14.8–705.3).
This is a highly significant increase in male production by treated females (two-tailed Fisher’s exact test; P < 0.0001, odds ratio = 71.8 with 95% confidence interval of 14.8–705.3).
There was a marginally significant trend for a decreasing female bias over the six time periods in the control group (Two-tailed Fisher’s exact test: P = 0.079; Fig. 3B ), a pattern that has been noted for other parasitoids that reproduce via symbiont-mediated parthenogenesis ( 37 ).