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Table 3 Neohelice granulata. Three-way ANOVA to test the effect of time within the reproductive season (dates: beginning and end), pre-hatching temperatures (18 and 27°C), and number of days days of initial starvation, and their interactions, on the stage duration of zoeae I from Mar Chiquita and San Antonio

From: Variation in early developmental stages in two populations of an intertidal crab, Neohelice (Chasmagnathus) granulata

Factor

df Effect

MS Effect

df Error

MS Error

F

P-level

Mar Chiquita

 Date (D)

1

29.082

73

0.413

70.328

0.000*

 Temperature (T)

1

0.003

73

0.413

0.008

0.926

 Days of starvation (S)

3

82.789

73

0.413

200.204

0.000*

 D × T

1

0.428

73

0.413

1.035

0.312

 D × S

3

2.726

73

0.413

6.594

0.000*

 S × T

3

0.895

73

0.413

2.165

0.099

 D × S × T

3

0.694

73

0.413

1.680

0.178

San Antonio

 Date (D)

1

21.883

104

0.229

95.527

0.000*

 Temperature (T)

1

0.234

104

0.229

1.022

0.314

 Days of starvation (S)

4

82.697

104

0.229

360.997

0.000*

 D × T

1

0.471

104

0.229

2.057

0.154

 D × S

4

1.745

104

0.229

7.618

0.000*

 S × T

4

0.017

104

0.229

0.077

0.989

 D × S × T

4

0.645

104

0.229

2.817

0.028*

  1. *Significant values of P (α = 0.05)