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Figure 1. Phylogenetic tree of the 30 bird species for which adult
telomere length and telomere length rate of change (TROC) were collected
from published papers on avian telomeres using the TRF or Q-FISH
methodologies. The consensus phylogenetic tree was obtained from
BirdTree.org (100 trees).
Figure 2. a) Correlations of adult telomere length and 3 life-history
traits of 30 bird species: lifespan, mass-predicted lifespan, and
mass-independent lifespan. b) Correlations of telomere length rate of
change (TROC) and the 3 lifecycle aspects. “Lifespan” shows unadjusted
correlations, “Mass-Pred Lifespan” shows lifespan values predicted
from the regression of lifespan on body size, and “Mass-Ind Lifespan”
shows the residuals of the regression of lifespan on body size. Pearson
correlations are shown with horizontal center bars and 95% confidence
intervals with high and low horizontal bars. Triangles show the
phylogeny-adjusted correlation values (none are significantly different
from zero at the P < 0.05 level). The horizontal black dashed
lines show zero correlation.