Table 3.

Effects of age, maternal presence, pathogen exposure and weight on immune parameters in nymphs

	Hemocyte concentration		Total-PO activity
	Chisq	p-value	Chisq	p-value
Age	12.65	0.001	74.47	<0.0001
Maternal presence	0.41	0.520	0.12	0.732
Pathogen exposure	0.17	0.681	0.61	0.436
Weight	18.71	<0.0001	0.13	0.721

Significant p-values are in bold. Note that non-significant interactions are not reported in this table