Morphometric Analysis of the Host Effect on Phenotypical Variation of Belminus ferroae (Hemiptera: Triatominae)

Table 2

Comparison of centroid size of B. ferroae, between parental and progeny reared under laboratory conditions with two different hosts: cockroaches and mice (Kruskal-Wallis test).

Comparison	Sex
	Females	Males
Parental versus offspring
P-HLO1
P-HLO2
P-HLO3
P-HMO1	0.3149	0.0201
P-HMO2	1.0000	0.3868
P-HMO3	1.0000	0.1153
Contemporaneous offspring (reared on different host)
HLO1-HMO1	0.01481	1.000000
HLO2-HMO2
HLO3-HMO3	0.00002	0.00301
Offspring noncontemporaneous (reared on the same host)
HLO1-HLO2	1.000000	0.607057
HLO1-HLO3	1.000000	0.032183
HLO2-HLO3	0.154945	1.000000
HMO1-HMO2	1.000000	0.000435
HMO1-HMO3	1.000000	1.000000
HMO2-HMO3	1.000000	1.000000

P (parental), HL (hemolymphagy = fed on cockroaches), HM (hematophagy = fed on mice), O1 (first offspring), O2 (second offspring), O3 (third offspring), and statistically significant difference, .