Effects of starvation, structural body size, sex and pre-starvation body mass on the fat content and lean dry mass of Anchomenus dorsalis.

The reported net effects of starvation, structural body size, sex and pre-starvation body mass on absolute fat content or absolute lean dry mass are based on the variance partitioning technique applied to a generalized linear model with a gamma distribution of errors and a log link function. A dataset including 100 beetles fattened ad libitum and 99 starved beetles was employed in analyses of absolute values. The reported net effects of structural body size, sex and pre-starvation body mass on relative fat content or relative lean dry mass are based on the variance partitioning technique applied to a generalized linear model with a gamma distribution of errors and an inverse link function. A dataset including 100 beetles fattened ad libitum was employed in the analyses of relative values. Significant effects are highlighted in bold. Non-significant main effects were included in the final models as the covariates necessary to compute net effects for other terms.