Sex-specific changes in autosomal methylation rate in ageing common terns - Data

In the manuscript "Sex-specific changes in autosomal methylation rate in aging common terns" published in Frontiers Ecology And Evolution, we investigate sex-specific age effects in global DNA methylation patterns in aging common terns in a longitudinal study. We collected blood at 1-, 3- and/or 4-year intervals, extracted DNA from the erythrocytes and estimated autosomal DNA methylation by mapping Reduced Representative Bisulfite Sequencing reads to a de novo assembled reference genome. 

The raw RRBS reads can be found at: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena, PRJEB48910 and the genome at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/, PRJNA560234.

This document contains the final data frame used for the GLMM. We further share a markdown document summarising the various scripts and programs used for the Reduced Representative Bisulfite Sequencing data analyses and GLMMs (e.g. RefFreeDMA, picard, bismark, and R) under another DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7493357.