Mites (Acari) Associated with the Desert Seed Harvester Ant, Messor pergandei (Mayr)

Table 3

Host sex preference of phoretic mites. (a) Analysis of Deviance table. Results of the comparison of the null model (M1) and the model with sex included (M2). (b) Observed and predicted (using Model 2) male and female infestation prevalence values.

(a) Analysis of deviance table

Model	df	Resid. Dev.	df	Deviance Resid.	𝑃(>|Chi|)
M1 null	32	309.36
M2 sex	33	382.74	1	73.38	0.0076

(b) Prevalence probabilities

Sex	Obs. Prob.	Std. Error Obs.	Pred. Prob
M	0.017	0.52	0.043
F	0.35	1.91	0.43