Supporting Information
Table S1: Pearson coefficients of correlation between the leukocyte
concentration and the lymphocytes, neutrophils, monocytes and
eosinophils counts. Values in brackets represent the 95% confidence
intervals. Significant correlations are in bold.
Table S2: Model selection for age effects on leukocyte concentration,
lymphocyte, neutrophil, monocyte and eosinophil counts. Body mass at
capture, sex, capture date, year of capture and the interaction between
capture date and year of capture were included as fixed effects. Because
individuals were sampled several times over the years, we included the
identity of the individuals as random intercepts. Models are ordered
from the lowest (best model) to the highest Akaike Information Criterion
(AIC). k represents the number of parameters in the fitted model
and ΔAIC the AIC difference between the model and the model with the
lowest AIC.
Table S3: Model selection based on the Akaike Information Criterion
(AIC) for the age models for leukocyte concentration (A), lymphocyte
count (B), neutrophil count (C), monocyte count (D) and eosinophil count
(E). Only the 10 most plausible models were presented and arranged from
the best to the least plausible. ΔAIC represents the AIC difference
between the model and the model with the lowest AIC. The best model and
competitive models (ΔAICc ≤ 2) are presented in bold. The ‘+’ indicates
that the variable is included in the model.
Table S4: Model selection based on the Akaike Information Criterion
(AIC) for the within- and between-individual age models for leukocyte
concentration (A), lymphocyte count (B), neutrophil count (C), monocyte
count (D) and eosinophil count (E). Only the 10 most plausible models
were presented and arranged from the best to the least plausible. ΔAIC
represents the AIC difference between the model and the model with the
lowest AIC. The best model and competitive models (ΔAICc ≤ 2) are
presented in bold. The ‘+’ indicates that the variable is included in
the model.