Table 2.

Path analysis of potential routes from maternal food to infection status. The standardized path coefficients, the standard error of the coefficient, and the p value for each path in the analysis

Path	Coefficient	SE	p
Maternal food → feeding rate	−.289	0.137	<.0001
Maternal food → body size	.668	0.086	<.0001
Body size → feeding rate	.272	0.064	<.0001
Body size → infection status	−.350	0.077	<.0001
Feeding rate → infection status	−.144	0.076	.053
Excluded paths
Maternal food → infection status	−.060	0.210	.412