Effect of offspring and parental diet on Choristoneura fumiferana life history traits evaluated with generalized animal models fitted with Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) techniques.

For each trait a set of models was built including the null model, parental and offspring diet as fixed factors, sex (only in the models for larval development traits) and their pairwise interactions. The importance of each term was evaluated using an information theoretic approach with the deviance information criterion (DIC). For each model in the 95% confidence set, weights (w) and the DIC are presented. The DIC for the null model is also presented. Weights for the models for realized fecundity and fecundity are not presented because the 95% confidence set included the null model so that we consider that all fixed terms or interactions had a negligible effect on the response.