The association between stressors and telomeres in non-human vertebrates: a meta-analysis

To improve our understanding of
stress-induced telomere dynamics in non-human vertebrates, we analysed 109
relevant studies in a meta-analytical framework. From those 109 studies, 28 were also used to test whether
the stressor-telomeres association is mediated by oxidative stress.

The
data files contain the list of studies included in the meta-analysis
("DOI"), the Z-score ("Effect size") of all the relationships between stressor exposure and telomeres, and stressor
exposure and oxidative stress extracted from the papers, and the 12 moderators
included in the analyses (e.g. "Stressor category", "Telomere
measure", etc).

The R script and additional data files can be found at: https://github.com/szymekdr/telomeres_stress_meta