TABLE 9.

Results of the top linear model explaining the variation in juvenile telomere length (TL) over the course of the breeding season showed an effect of experimental calcium treatment and mother telomere length.

	Juvenile telomere length
Predictors	Estimates	CI	p
(Intercept)	1.45	0.48–2.42	0.004
Treatment (control)	−0.63	−1.10 to −0.15	0.011
Mother TL	0.33	0.08–0.59	0.011
Plate	0.10	0.04–0.16	0.002
ICC	0.03
NBoxID	32
Observations	45
Marginal R 2/conditional R 2	0.515/0.527

Note: Bold values indicate significance at the p = 0.05 level.