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Table 1 Statistical assessment of geotaxis phenotypic differences before and after selection for each replicate population, as well as between the Y1 and Y25 grand means

From: Y-chromosomes can constrain adaptive evolution via epistatic interactions with other chromosomes

Population

t-test

df

P

Male

 Y1A

5.99

1464

0.0001

 Y1B

3.10

1547

0.0020

 Y1C

4.13

1441

0.0001

 Y25A

2.21

1475

0.0271

 Y25B

0.81

1458

0.4177

 Y25C

1.50

1541

0.1341

 Grand Mean

3.31

4

0.0296

Female

 Y1A

1.22

863

0.2215

 Y1B

6.14

853

0.0001

 Y1C

2.88

843

0.0041

 Y25A

0.46

876

0.6463

 Y25B

1.83

963

0.068

 Y25C

7.09

891

0.0001

 Grand Mean

0.40

4

0.7069

  1. Bolded P-values are significant after Bonferroni correction