Demographic consequences of reproductive interference in multi-species communities

BMC Ecology

Table 2 Initial experimental composition of each community type

Phenotypes of C. elegans or C. briggsae^a	Frequency of wildtype (%)	Frequency of C. nigoni (%)^b	Number of individuals in founding community^c
Wildtype hermaphrodites	100	0	50
None	0	100	100
Wildtype hermaphrodites	33	67	150
Vulvaless hermaphrodites	0	67	150
Feminized females and males	0	50	200
Wildtype and vulvaless hermaphrodites	50	0	100
Wildtype hermaphrodites and feminized females and males	33	0	150

^aEach of the seven community types were initiated for blocks with C. elegans or with C. briggsae
^bC. nigoni were excluded from three community types that contained only wildtype hermaphrodites or mixtures of conspecific genotypes with contrasting reproductive modes
^cInitial population sizes were set to equalize the number of egg-laying individuals (females or hermaphrodites) to 50 for each species within each community type assuming 1:1 sex ratio for genotypes with males and females

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