Table 2 Mortality of female Panamanian golden frogs (Atelopus zeteki) after 2-weeks of natural breeding and in response to GnRHa treatments of 0.05, 0.1, 0.2, or 0.4 μg/g body weight. Data reflects the number and percent (%) of females that died after oviposition, and those that died without ovipositing
Treatment | N | # Deaths (%) of Total N | Rate of Mortality (%) | |
Laid then died | Death if no eggs laid | |||
No-hormone | 111 | 20/111 (18.0) | 12/102 (11.7) | 8/9 (89.0) |
All GnRHa | 90 | 20/90 (22.2) | 8/49 (16.3) | 12/41 (29.3) |
P-value | – | 0.46 | 0.44 | 0.00008 |
GnRHa μg/g BW | N | # Deaths (%) | Laid then died | Death if no eggs laid |
0.05 | 23 | 5/23 (21.7) | 2/15 (9.1) | 3/8 (37.5) |
0.10 | 25 | 5/25 (20.0) | 2/12 (10.0) | 3/13 (23.1) |
0.20 | 22 | 4/22 (18.2) | 2/13 (18.2) | 2/9 (22.2) |
0.40 | 20 | 6/20 (30.0) | 2/8 (25.0) | 4/11 (36.4) |
P-value | – | 0.80 | 0.91 | 0.87 |