From: Young male mating success is associated with sperm number but not with male sex pheromone titres
Trait | Successful | Unsuccessful | DF | T | P | ||
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a) Control | Mean ± SE | Range | Mean ± SE | Range |  |  |  |
Spermatophore mass [mg] | 0.468 ± 0.091 | 0.14–0.63 | 0.439 ± 0.136 | 0.18–0.79 | 40 | 1.140 | 0.2610 |
Euyprene sperm [n] | 7686.2 ± 3000.5 | 2560–15616 | 4583.0 ± 2828.1 | 768 - 11264 | 40 | 4.901 | <0.0001 |
MSP 1 [ng * 350 μl−1] | 1680.9 ± 673.2 | 463–2967 | 1487.1 ± 819.5 | 208–3534 | 41 | 1.444 | 0.1565 |
MSP 2 [ng * 350 μl−1] | 87.2 ± 42.5 | 23–195 | 96.5 ± 49.8 | 32–216 | 33 | −0.987 | 0.3306 |
MSP 3 [ng * 350 μl−1] | 5556.6 ± 2780.2 | 1533–12212 | 5159.8 ± 2889.7 | 765–12710 | 41 | 0.784 | 0.4378 |
PC MSP | −0.0007 ± 0.975 | −1.9–1.8 | −0.0413 ± 1.074 | −2.6–1-7 | 33 | 0.208 | 0.8365 |
b) Blocked | |||||||
Spermatophore mass [mg] | 0.476 ± 0.090 | 0.25–0.65 | 0.457 ± 0.155 | 0.12–0.92 | 35 | 0.746 | 0.4609 |
Eupyrene sperm [n] | 8732.4 ± 3429.6 | 2304–16384 | 4394.7 ± 2186.4 | 768–9728 | 35 | 6.990 | <0.0001 |
MSP 1 [ng * 350 μl−1] | 1726.7 ± 720.1 | 281–2832 | 1731.8 ± 903.7 | 259–3768 | 42 | −0.038 | 0.9698 |
MSP 2 [ng * 350 μl−1] | 83.3 ± 39.3 | 21–177 | 89.8 ± 41.6 | 23–163 | 38 | −0.741 | 0.4632 |
MSP 3 [ng * 350 μl−1] | 5595.3 ± 2959.9 | 1194–17842 | 5519.9 ± 3138.2 | 48–13555 | 42 | 0.149 | 0.8824 |
PC MSP | 0.0067 ± 0.940 | −3.4–1.4 | −0.0823 ± 1.090 | −2.8–1.7 | 38 | 0.526 | 0.6016 |