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SELECTION IN CLADOCERA ON THE BASIS OF 



ceding long period, there is a reversal in this longer period of the 

 direction of the difference in the mean reaction-times for the entire 

 data and in that for the same-day broods. 



For the next year-period (August 1, 1914-July 31, 1915), the 

 means were 378.1 and 362.3 seconds. The difference, which was 

 + 15. 8 12. 3 seconds, is not statistically significant and is again in 

 the reverse direction from that for the preceding period. During 

 this year-period the same-day-brood data consisted of 13 broods and 



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A. Reproductive indices, actual values. 



B. Reproductive indices, superiority. 



C. Reaction-time curves. 



the mean for the minus strain was 114 19.44 seconds higher than 

 that for the plus strain. This is a difference almost 6 times the 

 statistical probable error. 1 



A test series conducted during October 1914, containing 249 

 individuals in the plus strain and 289 in the minus strain, gave 



1 These same-day broods are pretty well scattered through the year period, except that none 

 occurred during the last 4 months. The averages obtained for the same-day broods are more 

 dependable than the averages for the data as a whole when there are sufficient numbers, and 129 

 and 165 individuals constitute fairly good numbers. It is unusual that the reaction-time means 

 for the complete data and for the same-day-brood data for the same period should differ so widely 

 as in the present case. 



