Both candidate gene and neutral genetic diversity correlate with parasite resistance in female Mediterranean mouflon

Table 3 Model estimates and goodness of fit (R²c and R²m) of the best genetic model for model sets (i) testing the effects of sMLH and DRB1 heterozygosity status (HDRB), (ii) testing the effects of sMLH and the presence of specific DRB1 alleles and (iii) testing the effects of MLH and DRB1genotypes (G_DRB1) on FEC

	β ± SE	t value	p	R ² c	R ² m
Model set (i)				0.44	0.27
Intercept	6.10 ± 0.17
Body condition	− 0.48 ± 0.11	− 4.24	***
sMLH	− 1.01 ± 1.23	− 0.82
sMLH²	3.36 ± 1.19	2.80	**
HDRB	− 0.61 ± 0.24	− 2.60	*
Model set (ii)				0.45	0.28
Intercept	5.95 ± 0.14
Body condition	− 0.51 ± 0.11	− 4.49	***
sMLH	− 0.67 ± 1.26	− 0.54
sMLH²	3.07 ± 1.23	2.50	*
DRB1*0114	− 0.63 ± 0.27	− 2.33	*
Model set (iii)				0.46	0.28
Intercept	6.08 ± 0.19
Body condition	− 0.49 ± 0.12	− 4.28	***
sMLH	− 0.77 ± 1.26	− 0.61
sMLH²	3.10 ± 1.30	2.39	*
G_DRB1 B	− 0.41 ± 0.30	− 1.38
G_DRB1 C	− 0.87 ± 0.31	− 2.77	**
G_DRB1 D	0.14 ± 0.53	0.27
G_DRB1 E	− 0.39 ± 0.51	− 0.76

sMLH is the standardized multilocus heterozygosity. Non-genetic terms were retained in the first step of the modeling approach (see main text). P-values are coded by asterisks: “***” for p < 0.001, “**” for p < 0.01, “*” for p < 0.05

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