Table 1

ANOVA testing for heterogeneity among the evolved lines in mortality rates under the repeated freeze-thaw regime.

Source

df

SS

MS

F

p

Line

11

0.3906

0.03551

88.67

<0.0001

Error

24

0.0096

0.00040

Mortality rates were estimated with three-fold replication for each of the 12 evolved lines. The very low p-value indicates significant heritable variation among these lines in their survival capacity under the freeze-thaw regime.

Sleight et al. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2006 6:104   doi:10.1186/1471-2148-6-104