Ageing across the great divide: tissue transformation, organismal growth and temperature shape telomere dynamics through the metamorphic transition.

This difference was maintained after metamorphosis, such that while gut telomeres were not significantly shorter in adult frogs than they were immediately after metamorphosis (though the p -value was close to significance so perhaps a higher sample size would have given more power here, Tukey-test p -value = 0.059), they were still longer than in larval stages (all Tukey-test p -values < 0.002).

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