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Table 5 Mean (± SD) sex ratio, body length, flyability, aberration rate of D. melanogaster receiving combinational macrofungal mycelium-supplemented diets

From: Effects of combinational mycelia obtained via in vitro culture on ageing and reproduction in Drosophila melanogaster and their mechanisms

Groups

Sex ratio

Body length/mm

Flyability/%

Aberration rate/%

CK

1.01 ± 0.04b

2.46 ± 0.05ab

84.43 ± 7.62a

2.34 ± 1.04c

A

2.17 ± 0.76a

2.29 ± 0.20ab

31.31 ± 3.50 cd

37.12 ± 4.22a

B

1.14 ± 0.05b

2.50 ± 0.15ab

62.30 ± 7.56b

6.24 ± 1.80bc

C

1.28 ± 0.10b

2.51 ± 0.03a

54.88 ± 4.58b

11.28 ± 2.28bc

D

1.61 ± 0.35ab

2.31 ± 0.07ab

15.00 ± 13.23d

38.73 ± 4.89a

E

1.24 ± 0.14b

2.14 ± 0.08d

48.16 ± 9.33bc

14.91 ± 7.50b

F

1.48 ± 0.19b

2.26 ± 0.06 cd

48.75 ± 8.20bc

11.67 ± 1.44bc

G

1.59 ± 0.15ab

2.28 ± 0.15 cd

45.40 ± 13.51bc

47.78 ± 13.47a

F value

3.954

4.155

15.490

23.043

df

7

P value

0.011

0.009

0.000

0.000

  1. The means labelled by different letters are significantly different between treatment groups at P < 0.05 (Tukey’s test). CK—the control group—received an ordinary diet with no combinational macrofungal mycelia. Flies in treatments A, B, C, D, E, F, and G received a mycelium-supplemented diet with A. virgineoides, P. rubicundus, L. nuda, A. virgineoides + P. rubicundus, A. virgineoides + L. nuda, P. rubicundus + L. nuda, and A. virgineoides + P. rubicundus + L. nuda, respectively