Table 1 Summary of linear mixed model fitted by restricted maximum likelihood (REML) with female log lytic activity as response variable.

From: No evidence of a cleaning mutualism between burying beetles and their phoretic mites

 

Value

SE

DF

t-value

p-value

(Intercept)

−6.86

3.08

95.04

−2.22

0.03*

bacterial challenge

8.32

3.80

91.50

2.19

0.03*

mite presence

−0.59

0.22

132.11

−2.68

0.008**

female size

1.35

0.61

95.27

2.20

0.03*

breeding event

−0.29

0.21

66.22

−1.33

0.19

bacteria-dipping × female size

−1.64

0.76

92.05

−2.17

0.03*

mite presence × breeding event

0.70

0.32

70.46

2.21

0.03*

  1. Model parameter estimates (value) and standard error (SE) are provided, as well as t-values and p-values for the estimates (p-values < 0.05 are statistically significant, in bold). Significance: *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001.