Table 6. Analysis of deviance of expected gregarine abundance according to species identity, food treatment (fed and starved), sex, infection treatment (parasite-treated and parasite-control), thoracic fat content and wing length.
| Df | Deviance | Residual deviance | Probability (χ2) | |
| Null | 1 | 2933.1 | <0.001 | |
| Species identity | 1 | 66.9 | 2866.2 | <0.001 |
| Food treatment | 1 | 73.3 | 2792.9 | <0.001 |
| Sex | 1 | 1266.0 | 1526.9 | <0.001 |
| Infection treatment | 1 | 1050.4 | 476.5 | <0.001 |
| Fat | 1 | 15.5 | 461.0 | <0.001 |
| Wing length | 1 | 6.4 | 454.6 | 0.011 |
| Species: Food treatment | 0.9 | 453.7 | 0.343 | |
| Species: Sex | 1 | 5.3 | 448.4 | 0.021 |
| Species: Infection treatment | 1 | 2.6 | 445.8 | 0.105 |
| Food treatment: Sex | 1 | 6.0 | 439.8 | 0.014 |
| Food treatment: Infection treatment | 1 | 0.8 | 439.0 | 0.383 |
| Sex: Infection treatment | 1 | 79.1 | 359.9 | <0.001 |
| Sex: Fat | 1 | 0.1 | 359.8 | 0.778 |
| Sex: Wing length | 1 | 0.1 | 359.7 | 0.716 |
| Fat: Wing length | 1 | 1.3 | 358.4 | 0.263 |
| Species: Food treatment: Sex | 1 | 3.4 | 355.1 | 0.066 |
| Sex: Fat: Wing length | 1 | 3.9 | 351.2 | 0.048 |