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Fig. 5 | Frontiers in Zoology

Fig. 5

From: Heat production in a feeding matrix formed on carrion by communally breeding beetles

Fig. 5

Longitudinal thermal profiles (a), differences in the average heat production of the feeding matrix during the pre-larval phase (b) and the larval feeding phase (c) between Necrodes littoralis colonies differing in the presence of adult beetles and in the length of the pre-larval phase. All colonies were reared at constant 23 °C. As a no-beetle reference in (a), we used results for 23 °C from the environmental temperature experiment. Thermal profiles were fitted to the data using the distance-weighted least-squares smoothing procedure. Symbols – means, whiskers – 95% confidence intervals, different letters denote significant differences in pairwise comparisons

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