Figure 6.

Fitness traits are not associated with telomere length. (A) Normalized brood sizes (x-axis) of 152 wild isolates are plotted against the telomere-length estimates from those same strains (y-axis). The blue line indicates a linear fit of the data. However, the correlation is not significant (ρ = −0.062, P = 0.463). (B) Survival curves of nine wild isolates with long and short telomeres. Lines represent aggregate survival curves of three replicates. Survival among long and short telomere-length strains is not significantly different (P = 0.517; Mantel–Cox analysis).