Table 3.
Results of GLMMs analysing mosquito biting rates in relation to mosquito species (Ochlerotatus caspius and Culex pipiens) and birds’ body mass, sex, Plasmodium infection status, date on which each trial was conducted, and year of bird capture (for jackdaws, year was not included because all the individuals were captured the same year). The interactions between variables are indicated with *. Significant effects are highlighted in bold
| Explanatory variables | Jackdaws | House sparrows | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estimate | SE | Z-value | P-value | Estimate | SE | Z-value | P-value | |
| Mosquito species | 2.51 | 0.56 | 4.50 | < 0.001 | 0.51 | 0.54 | 0.94 | 0.35 |
| Body mass | 0.75 | 0.82 | 0.92 | 0.36 | 1.46 | 0.80 | 1.84 | 0.07 |
| Sex | 0.04 | 0.39 | 0.10 | 0.92 | -0.57 | 0.36 | -1.59 | 0.11 |
| Infection status | 0.03 | 0.36 | 0.07 | 0.95 | 0.02 | 0.37 | 0.05 | 0.96 |
| Date trial | 0.86 | 0.82 | 1.04 | 0.30 | 2.11 | 0.71 | 2.96 | 0.003 |
| Year | – | – | – | – | 0.25 | 0.36 | 0.71 | 0.48 |
| Mosquito species*sex | -1.37 | 0.69 | -1.99 | 0.047 | 0.28 | 0.56 | 0.60 | 0.62 |
| Mosquito species*infection status | 0.83 | 0.70 | 1.19 | 0.23 | -0.44 | 0.57 | -0.77 | 0.44 |
| Explained variance (R2) | 0.20 | 0.07 | ||||||
Abbreviation: SE, standard error