The influence of phylogeny and life history on telomere lengths
and telomere rate of change among bird species: a meta-analysis
Criscuolo F.1, F.S. Dobson 1,2 and
Q. Schull 3
1 University of Strasbourg, CNRS, Institut
Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, UMR 7178, 67000 Strasbourg, France
2 Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn
University, Auburn, AL, USA
3 MARBEC, University of Montpellier, IFREMER, IRD,
CNRS, Sète, France
Key words: evolution, telomere, life history, MCMCglmm, multivariate
analysis, phylogenetic correlation
Corresponding authors: F. Criscuolo,
francois.criscuolo@iphc.cnrs.fr
and F.S. Dobson,
fsdobson@msn.com
Author Contributions: F.C. collected the data, and all three authors ran
the statistical analyses and wrote the manuscript.