Table 1 Results of the generalized linear models (GLMs) predicting the presence of contaminated samples and the proportions of contaminant sequences.

From: Evaluation of plant contamination in metabarcoding diet analysis of a herbivore

Response variables

Adopted factors

 

AIC

ΔAIC

Presence of contaminated samples

 

Ground

 

248.47

 
  

Ground

Time

250.21

1.74

 

Overhead

Ground

 

250.27

1.8

Proportion of contaminant sequences

Overhead

 

Time

1842.7

 

Overhead

  

1843.1

0.4

  1. Akaike information criterion (AIC), difference from the smallest AIC value (ΔAIC).