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Table 3 Time of investigation of urine of estrus females by the males

From: Effect of early experience on neuronal and behavioral responses to con- and heterospecific odors in closely related Mus taxa: epigenetic contribution in formation of precopulatory isolation

Recipients

Test samples of the urine odor

Time of the odor investigation

(average, min – max)

Number of tests

Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test

with longer investigation of conspecific odor

total

P

Test statistic

(Z)

spicilegus

spicilegus

wagneri

15.7; 0.8–2.8

1.9; 0.3–6.1

13

15

0.0003

−3.2374

spicilegus mus

spicilegus

musculus

7.1; 1.8–15.9

9.7; 3.6–15.1

2

12

0.021

−2.2749

spicilegus w

spicilegus

wagneri

7.8; 2.3–12.2

7.9; 3.9–16.0

11

16

0.865

−0.196

wagneri

wagneri

spicilegus

9.1; 1.3–3.1

3.3; 0.9–7.4

11

13

0.0081

−2.5508

wagneri sp

wagneri

spicilegus

8.6; 0.9–21.2

6.8; 2.9–11.2

4

7

0.578

−0.676

musculus

musculus

spicilegus

18.1; 1.3–36.1

3.6; 0.3–12.5

15

15

0.0001

−3.4078

  1. See Table 1. Significant values are underlined