Abbreviations: TL - telomere length, RTL - relative telomere length, TRF
- terminal restriction fragment, HSF - half sib families, ind -
individuals, P - paternal age effect, M - maternal age effect, Par -
parental age effect, (-) negative association, (+) positive association
Figure 1. Parents’ and foster parents’ age group did not affect
offspring telomere length (A-B) and telomere dynamics (C-F). Mother’s
and father’s age groups coincided for most, but not all chicks. Columns
denote group means, whiskers are standard errors.