Table 2. Tick infestation in N. albiventris.

GLMM			GEE
Factors	Estimates ± SE	t-value	Factors	Estimates ± SE	Wald-Test	p-value
Intercept	−5.580±3.560	−1.57	Intercept	−4.182±1.156	13.10	<0.001***
Roost B1	0.914±0.748	1.22	Roost B1	0.723±0.371	3.78	0.052(*)
Roost C1	1.188±0.783	1.52	Roost C1	0.569±0.440	1.67	0.196
Roost D1	2.043±1.253	1.63	Roost D1	2.398±0.401	35.73	<0.001***
Roost E1	−0.208±1.350	−0.15	Roost E1	−0.264±0.598	0.20	0.659
Roost F1	3.761±1.600	2.35	Roost F1	1.423±0.454	9.79	0.002**
Body size	0.664±0.192	2.89	Body size	0.630±0.098	41.42	<0.001***
Female lactating2	0.163±0.482	0.34	Female lactating2	0.168±0.202	0.68	0.408
Female pregnant2	−0.345±0.919	−0.36	Female pregnant2	−0.569±0.483	1.39	0.566
Male non-reproductive3	1.300±0.671	1.94	Male non-reproductive3	1.286±0.354	13.21	<0.001***
Noal-DRB*01	−0.392±0.733	−0.53	Noal-DRB*10	−0.311±0.142	4.80	0.029*
Noal-DRB*02	0.160±0.312	0.51	Noal-DRB*11	0.543±0.204	7.07	0.007**
Noal-DRB*04	0.132±0.349	0.38	Capture year 2008	−1.257±0.249	25.54	<0.001***
Noal-DRB*10	−0.236±0.302	−0.78
Noal-DRB*11	0.516±0.511	1.01

Estimated regression parameters and standard errors of combined ecological host characteristics and specific MHC class II DRB alleles on tick infestation obtained by GLMM (Laplace approximation with month and year as random effects) and GEE (with autocorrelation factor of roost: correlation parameter α = 0.03±0.07, overdispersion scale parameter = 7.1). Averaged estimates of GLMM models with ΔQAIC<2 are shown (QAIC_best = 182.9, overdispersion parameter of the full GLMM model = 4.57). N = 122.

¹compared to animals of BCI,

²compared to non-reproductive adult females,

³compared to reproductively active males.