Fig. 3.

The relative rate at which UV-induced lesions are repaired in dermal fibroblasts is correlated with MLSP in 12 mammalian species (a; P < 0.0001). MLSP is highly correlated (P < 0.0005) with adult body mass in the same species (b). The apparent correlation in (a) is considerably weakened (P < 0.1) when effects of body mass are removed in an analysis of residuals (c). The rate of UV-induced lesion repair is correlated (P < 0.05) with species adult body mass (d). Data are from Cortopassi and Wang (1996) and are available in the CCMBL database (http://genomics.brocku.ca/ccmbl/). RRR rat relative repair