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Table 2 Effects of paternity on male share of defense against territory competitors and brood predators. Maternal brood size and the size difference between females and males were included as additional factors that may affect male share of defense and/or male paternity share (see Methods). Significant intercept terms indicate non-egalitarian defense behaviors between males and females (note that parameter estimates are on the scale of the logit-link function). (a) Results for the model fit to intrusion pressure from territory competitors. (b) Results for the model fit to intrusion pressure from brood predators. Significant p-values (p < 0.05)  are in bold

From: Nest defense in the face of cuckoldry: evolutionary rather than facultative adaptation to chronic paternity loss

 

Estimate

Std. Error

z

P

(a) Intruder type: territory competitors

 (Intercept)

−0.175

0.125

−1.398

0.162

 Paternity

0.439

0.487

0.901

0.368

 Maternal brood size

0.001

0.124

0.010

0.992

 Female – Male size difference

0.089

0.139

0.638

0.523

(b) Intruder type: brood predators

 (Intercept)

−1.004

0.268

−3.749

0.0002

 Paternity

0.138

0.947

0.146

0.884

 Maternal brood size

0.180

0.239

0.752

0.452

 Female – Male size difference

−0.283

0.269

−1.051

0.293