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Table 4.

F ratios for analysis of variance (ANOVA) on the duration of the 5th larval stadium in Locusta migratoria and Schistocerca gregaria fed one of a range of nutritionally imbalanced diets

Dependent variable	Stadium duration
Dependent variable		6 diets^{^†}	5 diets
Factors
Diet	31.776^***	42.99^***
Species	44.013^***	19.235^***
Sex	8.663^**	17.44^***
Diet × species	2.891^*	4.072^**
Diet × sex	1.045	3.566^*
Sex × species	1.394	0.008
Diet × sex × species	1.085	0.826

Dependent variable	Stadium duration
Dependent variable		6 diets^{^†}	5 diets
Factors
Diet	31.776^***	42.99^***
Species	44.013^***	19.235^***
Sex	8.663^**	17.44^***
Diet × species	2.891^*	4.072^**
Diet × sex	1.045	3.566^*
Sex × species	1.394	0.008
Diet × sex × species	1.085	0.826

The first analysis includes all six diets, while the second analysis excludes diet 7:35, which included extreme outliers (see Fig. 4).

, 0.05>P>0.01; **, 0.01>P>0.001; ***, P<0.001.

^†

Rank transformed.

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