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. 2022 Aug 24;33(6):1123–1132. doi: 10.1093/beheco/arac078

Table 2.

The effects of egg-producer and father age on egg size

Egg trait Covariate Effect size
(10‐3mm/day)
Standard errors z-score P
Length Egg-producer age 0.781 0.515 1.515 0.130
Father age 0.179 0.445 0.402 0.688
Egg-producer age × father age ‐1.551 0.690 ‐2.246 0.025
Width Egg-producer age ‐0.053 0.446 ‐0.118 0.906
Father age ‐0.044 0.392 ‐0.113 0.910
Egg-producer age × father age ‐0.580 0.596 ‐0.974 0.330

The units of egg length and width are in mm. Effects that were significant to a threshold of α = 0.05 are in boldface. Full model results are given in Supplementary Table S4.