birdmalariaO: birdmalariaO

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birdmalariaO

Description

Great reed warbler observations of offspring telomere length and mothers infection status (infected with malaria or not) from Asghar et al. 2015. Science 347:436-438.

Usage

birdmalariaO

Format

A data frame with 207 rows and 10 variables:

ID

double individual bird (offspring) identity at birth

brood

double brood identifier

broodyear

double year of birth

Sex

double Sex of the offspring (0 if male, 1 if female)

OffBTL

double Offspring ealy-life telomere length (at 9 day age)

mmal

double Mother malaria status at the time of breeding (1 if infected and 0 otherwise)

mage

double Mother age at the time of breeding

dam

character Unique identifier for each mother

Sire

character Unique identifier for each father

fmal

double Father malaria status at time of breeding (1 if infected and 0 otherwise)

fage

double Father's age at time of breeding

Asghar, M., Hasselquist, D., Hansson, B., Zehtindjiev, P., Westerdahl, H., & Bensch, S. (2015). Hidden costs of infection: chronic malaria accelerates telomere degradation and senescence in wild birds. Science, 347(6220), 436-438.

Orinal (pre-processed data) can be downloaded from: https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.d04h0

jfieberg/Data4Ecologists documentation built on April 17, 2025, 3:12 p.m.