df: degrees of freedom; MS: type III mean squares; F: F-statistic; σ2 variance component estimated using restricted maximum likelihood.Analyses of variance (ANOVA) of food intake.
Sex and starting length were the covariates in the ANCOVA model; corresponding differences, indicated by pairwise comparisons with Bonferroni adjustments for multiple comparisons, between the Control
Groups: T1 = test group 1, T2 = test group 2, C1 = control group 1, C2 = control group 2; Sampling times are in hours (hrs) after the start of the experiment. *Indicates significance at p
Table shows the results of multiple pairwise comparisons using the emmeans function for survival traits in the germ-free experiment. It includes details of the fitted models, the contrasted between tr
