Assortative breeding experiment in a songbird suggests telomere length is determined during early life rather than at conception.

Sci Rep · 2025 · PMC12540821 · PMID 41120532

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marginally non-significantp = 0.076so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

In contrast, even though daughters showed a similar trend to sons, the effect of parental pair group on female nestlings was marginally non-significant (LS-means ± SE, short vs. long parental pair group, -0.376 ± 0.067 versus − 0.209 ± 0.061, F 1,29.8 = 3.39 p = 0.076; Supporting information Table S7).

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