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Table 1 Population morph and mating frequencies for the seven study populations in Spain, Italy and the Netherlands

From: Ontogenetic shifts in male mating preference and morph-specific polyandry in a female colour polymorphic insect

Locality

Country

Lat

Long

Date

Population frequencies

Mating frequencies

χ2-value

P

 

A

G

A

G

 

Laxe

Spain

43.2125

−8.9554

2007 (7)

49 (152)

51 (158)

51 (217)

49 (211)

0.48

0.49

Laxe

Spain

  

2008 (6)

56 (157)

44 (125)

54 (373)

46 (314)

0.53

0.47

Laxe

Spain

  

2009 (1)

59 (26)

41 (18)

62 (51)

38 (31)

0.328

0.57

    

All (14)

53 (335)

47 (301)

54 (641)

46 (556)

0.018

0.89

Doniños

Spain

43.2927

−8.1855

2007 (2)

21 (12)

79 (44)

5 (1)

95 (19)

3.212

0.07

Doniños

Spain

  

2008 (1)

37 (10)

63 (17)

13 (2)

87 (13)

3.622

0.06

Doniños

Spain

  

2009 (3)

15 (19)

85 (107)

7 (7)

93 (91)

4.823

0.03

    

All (6)

20 (41)

80 (168)

8 (10)

92 (123)

12.344

<0.001

Louro

Spain

42.7580

−9.0953

2007 (5)

78 (236)

22 (65)

79 (58)

21 (15)

0.047

0.83

Louro

Spain

  

2008 (6)

76 (158)

24 (49)

74 (29)

26 (10)

0.084

0.77

Louro

Spain

  

2009 (2)

94 (98)

6 (6)

74 (78)

26 (27)

76.789

<0.0001

    

All (13)

80 (492)

20 (120)

76 (165)

24 (52)

2.611

0.1061

Canale Reale

Italy

40.4200

17.490

2007 (1)

39 (44)

61 (68)

24 (13)

76 (41)

5.234

0.0221

Hilversum [21]

Netherlands

52.1326

5.1015

2007 (1)

54 (37)

46 (32)

35 (14)

65 (26)

5.58

0.0182

Koudekerke [21]

Netherlands

51.2909

3.3225

2007 (1)

76 (25)

24 (8)

42 (36)

58 (49)

51.624

<0.0001

Zouweboezem [21]

Netherlands

51.5705

4.5955

2007 (1)

44 (19)

56 (24)

23 (12)

77 (40)

9.401

0.0022

All

    

993

721

891

887

44.641

<0.0001

  1. Observed and expected mating frequencies were compared with a χ2-test. A denotes androchrome and G gynochrome females. Morph percentages are given before and morph numbers (N) within brackets.