Table 3. Pearson's correlations between offspring telomere length over the growth period and parental telomere length.

	Paternal telomere length	Maternal telomere length
Telomere length 10 days (number of chicks=53)
r	0.122	0.284
P-value	0.388	0.042
Telomere length 70 days (n=37)
r	0.027	0.198
P-value	0.873	0.240
Telomere length 200 days (n=34)
r	−0.011	0.111
P-value	0.950	0.532
Telomere length 300 days (n=30)
r	0.346	0.252
P-value	0.061	0.180