Host-parasite interactions in non-native invasive species are dependent on the levels of standing genetic variation at the immune locus

Table 3 The results of a general and genaralized linear model predicting the influence of different factors on the prevalence or infection intensity of Digenea and Cestoda parasites in raccoons

Variables	DF	Prevalence		Infection intensity
Variables	DF	LRT	p-value	LRT	p-value
Digenea
N alleles	1	0.646	0.422	134.000	0.104
AAdist_sel	1	0.012	0.913	131.380	0.873
Sex	1	0.005	0.943	131.590	0.630
Age	1	1.878	0.171	132.210	0.356
Region		49.262	0.000***	131.530	0.682
Cestoda
N alleles	1	0.163	0.686	55.953	0.375
AAdist_sel	1	1.308	0.253	57.394	0.135
Sex	1	0.201	0.654	55.949	0.376
Age	1	6.671	0.010**	55.699	0.465
Region		5.226	0.022*	55.231	0.796

* - p<0.05, ** - p<0.01, *** - p<0.001
DF degrees of freedom, LRT Likelihood Ratio Test. AAdist_sel - the mean individual amino acid divergence for sites found to be under positive selection between alleles born by an individual

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