META-ANALYSIS
SEEKING DATA ON GROUP SIZE AND PARASITISM
A
National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent: www.nescent.org) working group is exploring
ways to enhance meta-analyses and syntheses through broader requests for
data. Here, we present one pilot request for data for a proposed
synthetic work.
Charles
Nunn and L‡szl— Garamszegi seek unpublished results and "pointers" to
published results involving the association between group size and parasitism
in vertebrates. The data will be used in a meta-analysis to investigate
the links between sociality and parasitism. All published studies will be
cited in resultant publications, and unpublished work may be given credit
through consortium coauthorship for the person providing the data. For
more information, please see:
http://www.biology.duke.edu/noorlab/Nunn.html
If you
have questions about the broader NESCent project of enhancing synthetic works,
or have an idea for a synthetic work that you'd like to pursue that also would
benefit from broader requests for data, please contact Mohamed Noor (Duke) or
Maria Servedio (UNC-Chapel Hill), or see: