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.