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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Heredity (Edinb). 2016 Jan 6;116(3):338–347. doi: 10.1038/hdy.2015.112

Table 1.

Direct effects of age, mitochondrial and nuclear genetic variation on introgression line female(1) fecundity (i.e. daily rate of egg laying) and fertility, and male(2) ejaculate weight.

Response variable: (1) Fecundity N=912 (1) Fertility N=912 (2) Ejaculate weight N = 615

Fixed effects Coef se χ 2 Df P Coef se χ 2 Df P Coef se χ 2 Df P
Age −0.67 0.04 305.0 1 <0.0001 −0.81 0.11 52.5 1 <0.0001 5.8 3 0.1198
Body weight 0.16 0.02 97.0 1 <0.0001 0.01 0.08 0.002 1 0.9636 5.44 0.40 183.6 1 <0.0001
Mating rate 0.04 0.02 6.8 1 0.0091 0.13 0.08 2.9 1 0.0874 - - - - -
Mitochondrial lineage 7.3 2 0.0266 1.8 2 0.3929 13.9 2 0.0010
Nuclear lineage 6.6 2 0.0373 0.0 2 0.9979 4.6 2 0.0986
Mito × Nuc 12.5 4 0.0141 8.1 4 0.0887 24.8 4 <0.0001
Age × Mito 4.4 2 0.1123 0.3 2 0.8724 31.7 6 <0.0001
Age × Nuc 6.0 2 0.0495 2.4 2 0.2964 24.7 6 <0.0001
Age × Mito × Nuc 10.0 4 0.0422 2.3 4 0.6766 36.4 12 <0.0001

Random effects Variance 2) Variance 2) Variance 2)

Line 2.061 × 10−9 0.00 0.08
ID 2.066 × 10−9 0.40 1.08