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Table 1 Statistics of longitudinal analysis of experimental and temporal effects on innate immune function

From: Microbial environment shapes immune function and cloacal microbiota dynamics in zebra finches Taeniopygia guttata

Response

Predictor

Df a

F

P

Agglutination (titer)

Experimental treatment

1, 41

0.03

0.87

Sampling moment

3, 125

0.79

0.50

Interaction

3, 125

0.22

0.88

[IgY] (absorbance)

Experimental treatment

1, 44

5.15

0.028

Sampling moment

3, 129

4.12

0.008

Interaction

3, 129

1.60

0.19

   

z

P

Lytic activity (probability) b

Experimental treatment

1

−0.71

0.48

Time (days)

1

−2.61

0.009

Interaction

1

1.80

0.07

   

F

P

[Haptoglobin] (mg ml−1)

Experimental treatment

1, 44

0.19

0.66

Sampling moment

3, 127

6.20

< 0.001

Interaction

3, 127

0.40

0.76

  1. aDenominator degrees of freedom based on Satterthwaite approximation
  2. bNo detected lysis titers at sampling moment 3 and 4 inhibited evaluation of differences among sampling moment categories; a logit link GLMM with continuous temporal predictor was fitted instead