The absolute differences in days until germination match theresults of Pollux et al. (2006), who report a 5.1 days deceleration andan acceleration of 2.1 days in germination after gut passage in carp,compared to the germination of control seeds for S. sagittifolia andSparganium emersum, respectively. For example, we found germi-nation was accelerated by 2.1 days for seeds of A. plantago-aquaticathat passed the gut of carp relative to the control group (wheregermination took 3.0 ± 0.0 days), and by 5.1 days for the utricle-coated seeds of C. pseudocyperus that passed the gut of tilapiarelative to the control group (where germination took 6.7 ± 0.7days (see Appendix A). Yule et al. (2015) similarly report a delayin germination when compared with control seeds for the seedsof Banana arguta, recovered from the intestines of freshwater sar-dines (Triportheus nematurus). Nevertheless, the overall pattern ingermination speed of the control seeds were very similar to thoseof the seeds after gut passage and gut passage did not consistentlycause plant seeds to switch germination pattern, perhaps with theexception of seeds of M. scorpioides (switching to a continuous strat-egy after passing the gut of tilapia) and J. effusus (switching to adiscontinuous strategy after passed the gut of carp).