TABLE 2.

Differences in total and differential white blood cell count between three different measured time points within the torpor-arousal cycle in hibernating garden dormice.

	Estimate	Std. Error	t-value	p-value
Leukocytes
F2,51 = 18.642, p < 0.001
LT–ET	0.329	0.664	0.495	0.771
IBA–ET	3.742	0.683	5.473	<0.001
IBA–LT	3.413	0.664	5.137	<0.001
Neutrophils
F2,24 = 19.064, p < 0.001
LT–ET	0.518	0.434	1.192	0.471
IBA–ET	2.551	0.446	5.722	<0.001
IBA–LT	2.034	0.419	4.858	<0.001
Lymphocytes
F2,24 = 4.321, p = 0.026
LT–ET	−0.043	0.290	−0.145	0.878
IBA–ET	0.727	0.305	2.377	0.127
IBA–LT	0.770	0.287	2.682	0.036
Monocytes
F2,15 = 1.86, p = 0.198
Eosinophils
F2,15 = 0.545, p = 0.593

Lymphocyte numbers were boxcox transformed to meet the assumption of statistical normality. Differences are reported as partial effects accounting for the individual as a random effect. Blood samples were collected during the physiological states of early torpor (“ET,” n = 8), late-torpor (“LT,” n = 9), and interbout arousal (“IBA,” n = 8). It was not possible to differentiate neutrophils and lymphocytes due to hemolysis in one blood sample and the sample size for these parameters during early torpor are reduced by one (n = 7). Significant differences are displayed in bold letters.