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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.