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Table 5 General Linear Mixed Models with type I sum of squares accounting for the trade-off between egg number and egg area of individuals of Pholeter gastrophilus collected from striped and bottlenose dolphins, controlling for worm body area (covariate)

From: Life-history trade-offs in a generalist digenean from cetaceans: the role of host specificity and environmental factors

Model

ΔAIC

w i

Predictor

F

df

p

Fixed effects

Random effects

Covariance structure

  

Intercept + BA + EA + HS + HS*BA + HS*EA

HI

RI

0

0.231

BA

24.93

1, 9.6

<0.005

EA

31.18

1, 120.4

<0.005

HS

5.66

1, 9.7

0.040

HS*BA

0.27

1, 195.8

0.601

HS*EA

2.45

1, 198.2

0.119

Intercept + BA + EA + HS + HS*EA

HI

RI

0.36

0.193

BA

24.49

1, 9.3

<0.005

EA

31.03

1, 119.2

<0.005

HS

5.85

1, 9.5

0.037

HS*EA

1.99

1, 199.0

0.160

Intercept + BA + EA + HS + HS*BA + HS*EA

HI + EA

RI + RS

1.66

0.101

BA

24.42

1, 9.4

<0.005

EA

29.53

1, 114.1

<0.005

HS

5.51

1, 9.5

0.042

HS*BA

0.19

1, 196.0

0.661

HS*EA

2.67

1, 192.1

0.104

Intercept + BA + EA + HS + HS*EA

HI + EA

RI + RS

1.92

0.089

BA

24.09

1, 9.2

<0.005

EA

29.35

1, 113.0

<0.005

HS

5.70

1, 9.4

0.040

HS*EA

2.24

1, 191.4

0.136

Intercept + BA + EA + HS + HS*BA + HS*EA

HI + BA

RI + RS

2.00

0.085

BA

24.93

1, 9.6

<0.005

EA

31.18

1, 120.4

<0.005

HS

5.66

1, 9.7

0.040

HS*BA

0.27

1, 195.8

0.601

HS*EA

2.45

1, 198.2

0.119

Intercept + BA + EA + HS + HS*EA

HI + BA

RI + RS

2.36

0.071

BA

24.49

1, 9.3

<0.005

EA

31.03

1, 119.2

<0.005

HS

5.85

1, 9.5

0.037

HS*EA

1.99

1, 199.0

0.160

Intercept + BA + EA + HS

HI

RI

3.00

0.052

BA

22.76

1, 9.1

<0.005

EA

39.23

1, 137.1

<0.005

HS

4.89

1, 9.2

0.054

Intercept + BA + EA + HS + HS*BA

HI

RI

3.14

0.048

BA

22.74

1, 9.2

<0.005

EA

39.41

1, 137.9

<0.005

HS

4.65

1, 9.3

0.058

HS*BA

0.30

1, 201.1

0.583

Intercept + BA + EA + HS + HS*BA + HS*EA

HI + BA + EA

RI + RS

4.65

0.023

BA

27.79

1, 3133.1

<0.005

EA

33.21

1, 352.7

<0.005

HS

6.29

1, 3119.3

0.012

HS*BA

0.27

1, 323.9

0.605

HS*EA

2.66

1, 298.4

0.104

Intercept + BA + EA + HS

HI + EA

RI + RS

4.84

0.021

BA

23.29

1, 9.0

<0.005

EA

36.91

1, 91.0

<0.005

HS

4.36

1, 9.2

0.066

  1. Models are arranged by increase of Akaike information criterion (AIC) and decrease of Akaike weight (w i ). Models with w i  < 0.01 are not shown. The probability associated to each fixed effect is also given; significant values are in bold. Abbreviations: BA worm body area, EA egg area, HS host species, HI host individual, RI random intercept, RS random slope
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