Age- and calorie-independent life span extension from dietary restriction by bacterial deprivation in Caenorhabditis elegans

Table 4 Statistical analysis of BD and chemosensory mutant epistasis experiments.

	N2 CF	N2 BD	che-3CF	che-3BD
N2 CF	-	1.7E-17	2.0E-21	2.6E-28
N2 BD	-	-	0.21	3.5E-12
che-3 CF	-	-	-	5.6E-09
che-3 BD	-	-	-	-
	N2 CF	N2 BD	*che-11* CF	*che-11* BD
N2 CF	-	6.0E-22	8.6E-13	2.3E-16
N2 BD	-	-	0.65	1.2E-06
che-11 CF	-	-	-	1.9E-04
che-11 BD	-	-	-	-
	N2 CF	N2 BD	*daf-10* CF	*daf-10* BD
N2 CF	-	3.7E-23	4.1E-07	1.7E-17
N2 BD	-	-	0.08	2.3E-02
daf-10 CF	-	-	-	1.8E-04
daf-10 BD	-	-	-	-
	N2 CF	N2 BD	*osm-3* CF	*osm-3* BD
N2 CF	-	1.1E-16	5.9E-18	4.6E-18
N2 BD	-	-	0.88	4.5E-08
osm-3 CF	-	-	-	4.3E-07
osm-3 BD	-	-	-	-
	N2 CF	N2 BD	*tax-4* CF	*tax-4* BD
N2 CF	-	3.7E-23	1.9E-26	6.0E-41
N2 BD	-	-	0.44	5.3E-21
tax-4 CF	-	-	-	1.4E-25
tax-4 BD	-	-	-	-

Pair-wise comparisons testing for significant differences in median life span were made for each of the experimental conditions shown in Table 3 and Figure 4. P-values were calculated by the Wilcoxon Rank-Sum test using the MATLAB 'ranksum' function.

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