Ecto- and endoparasite induce similar chemical and brain neurogenomic responses in the honey bee (Apis mellifera)

Table 3 Pair-wise squared Mahalanobis distances between the chemical profile of Varroa -parasitized and control bees

Treatment	Varroa 98	Control120	Varroa 120	Control231	Varroa 231
Control98	17.46	18.02	28.31	9.61	6.2
Control98	P < 0.001	P < 0.001	P < 0.001	P = 0.0015	P = 0.038
Varroa 98		12.38	18.19	6.4	17.07
Varroa 98		P = 0.0012	P < 0.001	P = 0.032	P < 0.001
Control120			9.09	8.34	17.7
Control120			P = 0.0025	P = 0.005	P < 0.001
Varroa 120				16.68	17.8
Varroa 120				P < 0.001	P < 0.001
Control231					9.72
					P = 0.0014

P-values that are significant at the 5% probability after Bonferroni's correction (P < 0.0083) are indicated in bold. The numbers 98, 120 and 231 indicate the colony origin of the bees.

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