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Table 6 A: GLMM exploring the effects of Internal Relatedness (IR), pairwise relatedness to the female (r), and MHC allele-sharing (D) on the likelihood of being a social or an extra-pair male, B: Relative variable importance given by Akaike weights (ΣAIC ω )

From: Females tend to prefer genetically similar mates in an island population of house sparrows

A.

Variables

Model

K

AICc

ΔAICc

ω

 

Male type (social vs. extra-pair)

r

2

98.1

0.00

0.183

 

(n = 60)

D

2

98.3

0.21

0.164

  

Null

1

98.5

0.32

0.156

  

D + r

3

99.1

0.93

0.115

  

IR

2

99.5

1.39

0.091

  

IR + r

3

99.8

1.64

0.080

  

IR + D

3

100.0

1.83

0.073

  

IR + D + r

4

101.0

2.87

0.044

  

r + year

4

102.6

4.51

0.019

  

D + year

4

102.8

4.65

0.018

  

Year

3

102.9

4.77

0.017

  

D + r + year

5

103.6

5.43

0.012

  

IR + year

4

104.1

5.97

0.009

  

IR + r + year

5

104.4

6.26

0.008

  

IR + D + year

5

104.6

6.43

0.007

  

IR + D + r + year

6

105.6

7.51

0.004

B.

Variables

Source of variation

ΣAIC ω

   
 

Male type (social vs. extra-pair)

r

0.46

   
  

D

0.44

   
  

IR

0.32

   
  

Year

0.09

   
  1. K = number of parameters.