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Table 2 Effect of age on the competitiveness of male G. f. fuscipes and G. p. palpalis
Age (days) Total number of pairs formed De-transformed Relative mating
index (plus or minus SE)		 Mating duration plus or minus SE (minutes) Mean Spermathecal Value (plus or minus SE)
  G.f.f. G.p.p. G.f.f. G.p.p. G.f.f. G.p.p. G.f.f. G.p.p.
1 3 3 0.04plus or minus.01a 0.04plus or minus.02a 41.67plus or minus17.7a 41.67plus or minus37.67a 0.75plus or minus.00a 0.17plus or minus.17a
5 5 14 0.06plus or minus.06a 0.17plus or minus.02b 56.60plus or minus10.01a 83.93plus or minus9.30a 0.65plus or minus.13a 0.51plus or minus.11a
8 29 22 0.42plus or minus.06b 0.26plus or minus.04c 40.24plus or minus3.59a 78.64plus or minus9.50a 0.68plus or minus.05a 0.73plus or minus.06b
13 33 44 0.48plus or minus.04b 0.53plus or minus.01d 35.97plus or minus3.19a 86.89plus or minus4.64a 0.74plus or minus.05a 0.80plus or minus.04b
Any two values in the same column followed by the same letter are not significantly different (P<=0.05)
The relative mating index is the number of mating pairs as a proportion of the total number of mating pairs.
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