Analysis of the influence of age at first reproduction and relative testes mass on female median lifespan and aging rate.

We compared models based on AICc and wi (see Material and methods section). K represents the number of parameters in the model, R2 corresponds to the adjusted R2 and Δ AICc represents the difference of corrected Akaike’s with that of the best models (*).1For the moose, Alces alces, the body mass extracted from the testes mass source was really high (789 kg, [81]). However, results were unchanged when we used body mass from another source (323 Kg, [82]).