Table 3.

Results of the GLMM with length of the species epithet as the response variable, showing the effects of the main predictors. Significant effects shown in bold

Fixed factors	Estimate	Standard error	z-value	p-value
(intercept)	−0.030	2.095	−0.014	0.9885
Genus name length	−0.001	0.002	−0.170	0.8647
Parasite taxon (cestodes)	−0.132	0.031	−4.317	<0.0001
Parasite taxon (monogeneans)	−0.080	0.029	−2.685	0.0073
Parasite taxon (nematodes)	−0.057	0.030	−1.871	0.0614
Parasite taxon (trematodes)	−0.098	0.030	−3.286	0.0010
Host taxon (birds)	−0.037	0.037	−1.003	0.3157
Host taxon (fish)	−0.090	0.245	−0.369	0.7118
Host taxon (invertebrates)	0.030	0.046	0.648	0.5172
Host taxon (mammals)	−0.048	0.033	−1.461	0.1440
Host taxon (reptiles)	−0.001	0.034	−0.043	0.9659
Year of publication	0.001	0.001	1.123	0.2615

NB: acanthocephalans (parasite taxon) and amphibians (host taxon) are included in the intercept and serve as reference.

The percentage of the remaining variance accounted for by the random factor ‘Journal ID’ was <1%.