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Table 2 Results of Cox proportional hazard analysis for survivorship of the populations at the four experimental temperatures. A) females; B) males. Population is nested within location (fixed effect).

From: Thermal plasticity in Drosophila melanogaster: A comparison of geographic populations

A) Females

  

12°C

 

18°C

28°C

31.2°C

Source of variation

df

MS

F

MS

F

MS

F

MS

F

Location

1

22.8

1.79

38.3

0.52

60.1

0.61

50.4

0.77

Population within location

3

12.7

1.23

73.9

7.4 ***

98.2

10 ***

65.2

6.5 ***

Residuals

479/491/491/489

10.3

 

9.98

 

9.8

 

10

 

B) Males

Source of variation

df

MS

F

MS

F

MS

F

MS

F

Location

1

0.4

0.01

24.8

0.34

71.1

0.59

56.3

0.66

Population within location

3

39

3.8 *

72.2

7.2 ***

119.7

12.4 ***

84.9

8.6 ***

Residuals

495/483/490/492

10.3

 

10

 

9.6

 

9.88

 
  1. * P < 0.05; ***P < 0.001; df, degrees of freedom; MS, mean square; F, variance ratio.