RESULTS
The correlation betweentarsus length and telomere
length
The model that included tarsus length was the highest ranked model for
explaining variation in TL (w 1=0.78,ER 1=w1/w2 =3.55,
model without tarsus length: ∆2AICc =2.5). Thus,
there was a negative association between tarsus length and TL
(βtarsus length =-0.004±0.002, CI=[-0.007,
-0.000], n =2462, Fig. 1 and Table 1), such that larger
nestlings generally had slightly shorter early-life telomeres.