Table 3 Fledgling recruitment is predicted by an interaction of parental relative telomere lengths (RTL) using a logistic regression.

From: Telomere lengths correlate with fitness but assortative mating by telomeres confers no benefit to fledgling recruitment

(A) Full model

Estimate

Std. Error

z value

p value

(Intercept)

 − 11.8

4.77

 − 2.47

0.0134

Mother’s RTL

10.9

6.24

1.74

0.0818

Father’s RTL

12.4

5.44

2.28

0.0227

Mother’s RTL: Father’s RTL

 − 12.9

6.42

 − 2.01

0.0450

Chick’s RTL

2.03

1.85

1.10

0.273

Sex (male)

 − 0.611

0.617

 − 0.991

0.322

Mother’s age

0.0407

0.132

0.308

0.758

Father’s age

 − 0.0279

0.114

 − 0.243

0.808

Mother’s age: Father’s age

0.00356

0.0129

0.276

0.783

ΔTL

 − 0.854

2.77

 − 0.308

0.758

  1. ΔTL is the absolute difference between mates’ telomere lengths, as a proxy for assortative mating. Residual deviance: 67.2 on 50 df.
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