Figure 1
Effect of age on relative telomere length (RTL) in edible dormice (n = 49, N = 158).
The effect of age was best described by a quadratic polynomial (age coefficient −0.14, SE 0.07; P = 0.033; age2 coefficient 0.019; SE 0.007; P = 0.005). Component and residuals plot from a linear mixed effects model. The r2 of the full model was 0.53; the r2 of random effects was 0.40.
