Data and code of "Germline mutation rate predicts cancer mortality across 37 vertebrate species" article

Data and code used in this article.

The "Data.csv" file contains information about each species class, common name, average yearly mutation rate, trophic level, number of animals per species that died from cancer, records of mortality per species, the minimum confidence interval (CI) for the cancer mortality values, the maximum CI for the cancer mortality values, the standard error (SE) of the records of mortality per species, cancer mortality, average parental age (measured in months), maximum lifespan (measured in months), average parental age (measured in months), and whether a species is reported as domesticated/semidomesticated or not. The way the authors obtained these data, and the original sources of these data, are described in the methodology section of the article.

The "Regression_analyses.R" file is the code we used in the regression analyses conducted in this article. The .phy file is the phylogenetic tree used in the regression analyses.

The .txt, .nwk, .Rproj, and "germFit.R" files are the data and code we used for comparing the different models of phenotype evolution (comparison of 3 different models: Ornstein–Uhlenbeck, Brownian, and Early Burst).