Table 3.

Generalized linear mixed-effects models investigating the effect of infection presence (infected or uninfected) and infection load (number of parasite genomes/μL of DNA extract quantified using qPCR) on the PLS score of the predicted samples including mosquito age as a random effect

	Coefficients	Robust standard error	z	95% Confidence intervals	P value
Oocyst infections
Infection presence	0.67	0.13	5.11	0.41 to 0.93	< 0.001
Infection load	− 0.000003	− 0.000002	− 1.26	− 0.0000074 to 0.0000015	0.21
Mosquito age (random effect)	0.018	0.005	–	0.01 to 0.03	–
Sporozoite infections
Infection presence	0.75	0.12	6.03	0.51 to 1.00	< 0.001
Infection load	0.0000019	0.0000003	5.82	0.0000013 to 0.0000025	< 0.001
Mosquito age (random effect)	0.007	0.008	–	0.0032 to 0.087	–