Colony Location
(Wilderness Park, Lincoln, NE)
FCT   P-value FIC   P-value R
  Empirical values          
Simple family colonies 2009 (n=8) 0.441 0 -0.661 0 0.823
  (0.267-0.571)   (-0.771--0.549)   (0.738-0.873)
 All colonies 2010 (n=8) 0.215
(0.094-0.353)
0 -0.126,
(-0.428-0.069)
0.0004 0.385
(0.212-0.543)
Simple family colonies 2010 (n=2) 0.195 0 -0.296 0.0005 0.408
  (-0.004- 0.398)   (-0.635- 0.048)   (-0.012-0.683)
Mixed family colonies 2010 (n=5) 0.245 0 -0.106 0.0095 0.421
  (0.111- 0.392)   (-0.412- 0.124)   (0.236- 0.589)
Simple family colonies Fall/Winter 2010 (n=8) 0.217   0 -0.858   0 0.797
  (0.220-0.072)   (-0.918--0.778)   (0.645-0.863)
All colonies 2011 (n=8) 0.120
(0.036-0.241)
0 -0.221
(-0.5-0.042)
0 0.259
(0.119-0.436)
Simple family colonies 2011 (n=2) 0.184 0 -0.282 0 0.387
  (0.009- 0.371)   (-0.571- 0.080)   (0.032- 0.538)
Mixed family colonies 2011 (n=1) 0.121 0 -0.199 0 0.256
  (0.038-0.256)   (-0.521-0.095)   (0.119-0.467)
Table 2: F-statistics: Reticulitermes flavipes worker relatedness estimates (r) in natural colonies (Confidence intervals of 95% are shown in parentheses and the sample size (n) refers to the number of colonies studied in each population). P-values were estimated by permutations.