Figure 2

Female reproductive output depending on copulation duration. Female reproductive output in terms of (a) egg production, (b) egg hatching success, and (c) larvae production for matings interrupted at predetermined times (white boxes) and naturally terminated matings (shaded box). The box plots represent the median as the middle line, 25 and 75% quantiles as box boundaries, and 10 and 90% quantiles as whiskers. The median (range) duration of copulation for unmanipulated matings is given under the corresponding box. Classes not sharing the same letter are significantly different (all H > 23.6, all P < 0.01, from a Kruskal-Wallis ANOVA followed by Tukey-type multiple comparisons). Sample sizes are given in parentheses.