FIGURES
Figure 1: The relationship between Carnushemapterus infestation and telomere shortening in wild jackdaws.
(a) Correlation between telomere length at day 5 and day 30: the red
diagonal line represents no difference (no change in telomere length)
and further points below the line indicate more telomere shortening. Raw
data points and regression lines for C. hemapterus presence
(dashed line, filled circles) and absence (solid line, open circles) are
shown. (b) Telomere shortening represented with boxplots showing the
median (line), the interquartile range (box) and first and third
quartiles (whiskers). The shaded area represents the data point
distribution (violin plot) and raw data points are shown in grey. Note
that for graphical purposes telomere shortening is plotted but in the
analysis telomere shortening was modelled through an interaction with
age.