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Table 2 Statistical associations between homozygosity weighted by locus (HL) and principal components derived from immune and growth variables and in pups (linear models), and immune variables in juveniles (linear mixed effect models)

From: Context-dependent associations between heterozygosity and immune variation in a wild carnivore

Colony

Response Variable

Estimate (HL)

SE

t-value

p-value

HIC

PC1-IgG

0.60

45.55

0.01

0.989

 

PC2-IgG

−13.28

11.55

−1.15

0.266

CC

PC1-IgG

27.99

18.48

1.51

0.146

 

PC2-IgG

−16.75

7.58

−2.20

0.039 *

HIC

PC1-WBC

−21.32

17.47

−1.22

0.240

 

PC2-WBC

10.87

10.28

1.05

0.306

CC

PC1-WBC

−16.23

9.12

−1.77

0.089

 

PC2-WBC

2.01

3.665

0.55

0.588

  1. HIC human-impacted colony, CC control colony, SE standard error, IgG total immunoglobulin G concentration (mg/ml), WBC total leukocyte concentration (109/l), *p<0.05