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Table 2 Mean effect size estimates and 95% credible intervals of the posterior distribution of parameters that influenced the presence of extra-pair paternity in white-browed coucal clutches

From: Certainty of paternity in two coucal species with divergent sex roles: the devil takes the hindmost

Parameter

Mean estimate

2.5%

97.5%

P(β) > 0

(a) All clutches (n = 126)

 Intercept

−3.602

−4.372

−2.284

 

 Lay date

−0.399

−0.549

1.338

0.788

 Clutch size

0.290

−0.712

1.296

0.714

 Proportion of young genotyped

−0.159

−1.166

0.861

0.382

 Clutch size * Proportion of young genotyped

0.086

−1.027

1.217

0.557

(b) Completely genotyped clutches (n = 68)

 Intercept

−3.073

−4.321

−1. 844

 

 Lay date

0.409

−0.955

1.755

0.716

 Clutch size

0.649

−0.824

2.077

0.810

  1. The last column [P(β) > 0] gives the posterior probability of the hypothesis that the effect is greater than zero. For both models (a) and (b) the random effect was female ID. Model a: marginal R2 = 0.262, conditional R2 = 0.262; Model b: marginal R2 = 0.387, conditional R2 = 0.387