birdmalariaTL: birdmalariaTL

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birdmalariaTL

Description

Observations of telomere length as well as demographics and infection status of great reed warblers from Asghar et al. 2015. Science 347:436-438.

Usage

birdmalariaTL

Format

A data frame with 174 rows and 5 variables:

Ind

character individual bird identifier

Sex

double sex of the individual, 0 if male, 1 if female

year

double year of birth

Age

double age of the bird

infected

infection status = 0 if uninfected, 1 if infected

TL

double telomere length

Data are from:

Source

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.