Infection with Babesia bovis alters metabolic rates of Rhipicephalus microplus ticks across life stages

Parasites & Vectors

Table 3 Results for a binomial generalized mixed-effect model used to determine the maximum likelihood of hatching, with tick ID as a random effect

	Model term	Estimate	Std error	z-value	P-value
Hatching by treatment
Likelihood of hatching	Intercept	2.66	0.389	6.83	P < 0.0001
Likelihood of hatching	Status (infected)	−2.99	0.263	−11.4	P < 0.0001
Hatching by maternal kinete category
Likelihood of hatching	Intercept	2.83	0.367	7.70	P < 0.0001
	Undetectable	−3.13	0.413	−7.58	P < 0.0001
	1–5	−3.38	0.409	−8.25	P < 0.0001
	5–10	−1.62	0.494	−3.27	P = 0.0011
	> 10	−3.68	0.608	−6.05	P < 0.0001

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