A Long Temporal Study of Parasitism in Asexual-Sexual Populations of Carassius gibelio: Does the Parasite Infection Support Coevolutionary Red Queen Dynamics?

Table 3

The effects of ploidy, sex, year, and body size on parasite abundance (transformed in log). Parasite abundance was expressed by total parasite abundance, abundance of the most common parasitic groups, genera, or species in Carassius gibelio. The statistically significant values are shown in bold.

Dependent variable	Predicted variables			Total	Total
Total parasites	Year	14.432	<0.001	10.038	<0.001
	Sex	0.002	0.960
	Ploidy	0.002	0.964
	Body size	11.572	0.001
	Year ploidy	3.556	0.015
	Ploidy body size	0.001	0.979
Monogenea	Year	13.720	<0.001	9.119	<0.001
	Sex	0.010	0.922
	Ploidy	0.206	0.651
	Body size	6.660	0.011
	Year ploidy	4.063	0.008
	Ploidy body size	0.279	0.598
Dactylogyrus	Year	8.387	<0.001	5.530	<0.001
	Sex	0.482	0.488
	Ploidy	0.051	0.822
	Body size	6.851	0.010
	Year ploidy	1.927	0.127
	Ploidy body size	0.069	0.794
Gyrodactylus	Year	18.599	<0.001	9.557	<0.001
	Sex	0.110	0.740
	Ploidy	0.038	0.846
	Body size	1.446	0.231
	Year ploidy	4.489	0.005
	Ploidy body size	0.073	0.787
Ichthyophthirius multifiliis	Year	11.887	<0.001	8.268	<0.001
	Sex	0.210	0.647
	Ploidy	0.151	0.698
	Body size	8.936	0.003
	Year ploidy	1.847	0.140
	Ploidy body size	0.191	0.662
Nematoda	Year	12.201	<0.001	8.217	<0.001
	Sex	1.884	0.172
	Ploidy	7.624	0.006
	Body size	14.008	<0.001
	Year ploidy	1.191	0.315
	Ploidy body size	7.690	0.006