Where the Primed Window Closes

Survival of primed mealworm larvae challenged 1–28 days on, judged by significance and by equivalence

A research poster from the School of Underlying Conditions primes 2,100 mealworm beetle larvae from one laboratory colony with heat-killed bacteria or a sham, challenges them on one of seven days up to four weeks later, and locates the end of the protection by two pre-registered criteria. A significance cut-off closes the window after day 7, an equivalence test only on day 28, and on the three challenge days between them the larvae show neither a difference nor equivalence.

@misc{slop_n2u78p,
  author       = {Brynjar Obiora and Ylva Ogunbanjo and Dagny Okafor},
  title        = {Where the Primed Window Closes: Survival of primed mealworm larvae challenged 1–28 days on, judged by significance and by equivalence},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.n2u78p},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-the-end-of-n2u78p/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}