Frontiers in Zoology

Table 4 Parasite load as a predictor of survival to next season

From: Host sex and age influence endoparasite burdens in the gray mouse lemur

		β	SE	z	P
Subulura prevalence^a	Intercept	−0.121	0.359	−0.338	0.736
	Subulura prevalence	−0.080	0.422	−0.189	0.850
	Sex (ref. female)	−0.043	0.387	−0.111	0.912
	Age	0.035	0.182	0.194	0.846
	season 2012 dry	0.412	0.413	0.997	0.319
	season 2012 rainy	0.939	0.533	1.762	0.078
Trichuris prevalence^b	Intercept	−0.124	0.349	−0.354	0.724
	Trichuris prevalence	−0.155	0.506	−0.306	0.760
	Sex (ref. female)	−0.052	0.371	−0.140	0.889
	Age	0.039	0.179	0.218	0.827
	season 2012 dry	0.422	0.409	1.033	0.302
	season 2012 rainy	0.939	0.533	1.763	0.078
Hymenolepis prevalence^c	Intercept	−0.261	0.356	−0.734	0.463
	Hymenolepis prevalence	0.637	0.427	1.494	0.135
	Sex (ref. female)	−0.050	0.371	−0.134	0.894
	Age	0.085	0.183	0.467	0.640
	season 2012 dry	0.390	0.412	0.945	0.344
	season 2012 rainy	0.870	0.538	0.618	0.106
Morphotype richness^d	Intercept	−0.140	0.374	−0.374	0.708
	Morphotype richness	−0.001	0.206	−0.003	0.997
	Sex (ref. female)	−0.065	0.374	−0.175	0.861
	Age	0.042	0.184	0.226	0.821
	season 2012 dry	0.423	0.411	1.031	0.303
	season 2012 rainy	0.937	0.533	1.758	0.079

N = 139 individuals
^aNagelkerke’s R² = 0.035
^bNagelkerke’s R² = 0.036
^cNagelkerke’s R² = 0.056
^dNagelkerke’s R² = 0.035
Season reference level is dry season 2010

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