Table 2 : For 53 bird species, analyses of associations of telomere
traits (adult mean telomere length (A , Adult TL ),
telomere rate of changes (B , TROC ) and chick mean
telomere length (C , Chick TL ) and life-history traits
(body size, PC1; the slow-fast continuum of pace of life, PC2; and
parental care, PC3). Pearson’s correlation coefficients and both
univariate and multivariate MCMC models that measure effects of
phylogeny and statistically “adjust” for shared ancestry are shown.
Proportion of variance among species attributed to phylogeny
(phylogenetic r), and unexplained associations (residual r, associations
statistically “controlled” for phylogeny) are presented, with
significant results in bold. Beta coefficients show changes in TL
measures in kb for each standardized unit change in the principle
component axis values.