Results Adult females and males breeding at owl sites had significantly shorter telomeres at the end of the chick-rearing stage than adults at control sites, and the nearly significant predator presence-by-sex interaction indicates that the differences in telomere length between owl- and control-site individuals could be more pronounced in males than in females (predator presence F 1,17.3 = 6.47, p = 0.02; sex F 1,14.79 = 8.45, p = 0.01; predator presence × sex F 1, 14.79 = 4.50, p = 0.05; Fig. 1 a).
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Impact of continuous predator threat on telomere dynamics in parent and nestling pied flycatchers.
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