Fig. 5. Power fit of breaking stress (
brk) as a function of
breaking strain (
brk) of the unmelanized (open circles) and
melanized (closed circles) barbs. There were no significant differences in
slope (ANCOVA; P2,153=0.42) or intercept
(P2,153=0.74) between barb colors for the log-transformed
data (overall equation:
brk=1600
brk0.62,
r2=0.66, P1,154<0.001 that the
overall slope is zero).