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Figure 5

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

Figure 5

Hormone manipulation experiments. (A) JH III treatment of young queenless workers. JH III treated females showed no difference in bending propensity compared to cyclohexane-treated controls. (B) Effect of methoprene treatment on oocyte development in young queenright females from colonies 11 and 12. Each data point represents 1 of a possible 6 measurable primary oocytes from treated and non-treated females (the horizontal line represents the grand mean shown for each nest). In colony 11, methoprene-treated females had longer oocytes than both control types (Steel-Dwass all pairs: vs. non-treated: N = 111, Z = 3.25, P = 0.003 = **; vs. cyclohexane: N = 166, Z = 4, P = 0.0002 = ***). In colony 12, where a comparison was made with only a solvent control, the difference was less obvious but still significant (Mann–Whitney U test: N = 165, Z = 2.12, P = 0.03 = *).

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