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From: The role of juvenile hormone in dominance behavior, reproduction and cuticular pheromone signaling in the caste-flexible epiponine wasp, Synoeca surinama

Figure 4

Ecdysteroids levels in ovaries and hemolymph. Ovarian ecdysteroid contents correlate positively with: (A) ovary size (number of oocytes >70% length of mature egg) in queens from colonies 6-10 (N = 36, Spearman’s ρ = 0.51, P = 0.0014), and (B) oocyte length in workers (+) and benders (o) from colony 4 (N = 15; Spearman’s ρ = 0.87; P <0.0001). (C) Hemolymph ecdysteroid titers did not statistically differ between queens and workers in colony 8 (Kruskal-Wallis test: N = 21, H1 = 0.18, P = 0.86, Zr = 0.075). Box plots show the median and the middle two quartiles; the whiskers indicate the 1.5 interquartile range.

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