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Sexually selected signals reliably reflect individual phenotypic or genetic quality and, thus, survival prospects of holders. Telomere length is considered a good predictor of life expectancy and, consequently, exploring the links between telomere length and sexually selected traits is much needed to better understand the mechanisms that maintain the honesty of sexual signals. We manipulated the length of throat feathers in spotless starling (Sturnus unicolor) males (a sexually selected signal) before reproduction and explored its effects on telomere shortening and breeding performance in subsequent reproductive events. We did not detect an effect of the feathers clipping manipulation, but males with longer throat feathers before the experiment had shorter telomeres that also shortened more slowly than those of males with shorter throat feathers did. Moreover, length of throat feathers of males before manipulation was positively related to hatching success of second clutches. Thus, correlative but not experimental results support the expected associations between sexually selected signals, telomeres and reproduction. We discuss such results in scenarios of sexual selection where feather length reflects, but does not directly cause, telomere attrition and enhanced reproductive success. Males with longer throat feathers might be older, more experienced males (i.e., with shorter telomeres), able to buffer telomere shortening between reproductive events. Because of the absence of experimental effects, differential incubation effort of females cannot explain the detected association with hatching success, but other sexually selected traits that covary with throat-feather length could be responsible. Exploring those physiological and/or morphological characteristics related to throat-feather length should therefore be the matter of future research, This work was supported by the currently named Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades and European (FEDER) funds (CGL2013-48193-C3-1-P, CGL2017-83103-P, CGL2017-89063-P, CGL2015-65055-P and PGC2018-095704-B-100). MAG was financed by a predoctoral contract (BES-2014-068661) from the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, and GT by the Ramón y Cajal Programme., Reproductive data; Telomere data, Peer reviewed

Study area and study species The study was conducted during the years 2015, 2016 and 2017 in a south-eastern region of Spain (Hoya de Guadix, 37º15’N, 3º01’W), where nest-boxes attached to tree trunks or walls at 3–4 m above-ground are available for starlings to breed in (for further information on the study area see Soler et al. (2017)). In the studied starling population, the reproductive season starts in early April and most individuals lay a second clutch during May-June. The most common clutch size is 62 plants to the nest, which have been shown to have antimicrobial-beneficial functions4-5 eggs. Here, we will focus on the colouration of the base of the beak, a trait with a more marked sexual differentiation as we can see in its reflectance at different wavelengths (Fig. 1). Fieldwork and experimental procedure In this population, courtship activity (e.g. singing, introducing fresh green plants and feathers in nest boxes) starts in February, more than one month before egg laying (pers. obs.). During this period, some birds roost in nest-boxes and we take advantage ofthis fact for conducting yearly bird trapping sessions in the study area (twice a year between February and mid-March). One hour before dawn, we closed the entrance of all nest boxes in the study area, and immediately after dawn, we captured by hand all individuals found roosting inside. Captured birds were kept individually in clean cotton bags hanging from a stick to keep birds quiet, and were released immediately after sampling. The maximum time that a captured starling was in the bag did never exced three hours. We explored the possible effect of time that birds were kept in the bag on bird colouration and body condition measures of the males that we recaptured by classifying them as being kept in the bag less than 1 hour (N(males) = 10), between 1 and 2 hours (N = 5), and between 2 and 3 hours (N = 7). After controlling for the effect of date of first and last capture, time between captures, treatment and size of throat feathers in the first capture, results showed that retaining time 184 in first captures did not significantly affect blue, red-yellow, or brightness colouration of the beak of males (F1,15 < 2.66, P > 0.124), nor body condition (F1, 10 = 2.19, P = 0.170) in subsequent captures. It neither had any apparent long-term consequences (see Ruiz-Rodríguez et al. (2015)), nor imply apparent negative effects on breeding performance of captured birds (Soler et al. 2008), This work was supported by the currently named Ministerio de Ciencia,es and European (FEDER) funds (GL2013C-48193-C3-1-P, CGL2017-83103-P Innovación Universidad, CGL2017-89063-P). MAG was financed by a predoctoral contract (BES-2014-068661) from the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, and GT by the Ramón y Cajal Programme, Peer reviewed

Dataset used in Tomás et al. (2020): (DOI: 10.1111/jav.02427). Data were collected in the Hoya de Guadix in 2012 in spotless starling (Sturnus unicolor) nests in the framework of an experiment to evaluate whether distance to the cavity entrance and nest size influence the risk of ectoparasitism in avian nests. Dataset includes hatching date, brood size, mean nestling body mass, microclimate of the cavity, as well as ectoparasite abundance and distance between the nest and the cavity entrance before and after experimental manipulation., Dataset used in Tomás et al. (2020): (DOI: 10.1111/jav.02427). It contains data collected in Guadix in 2012 in the framework of an experiment to evaluate whether distance to the cavity entrance and nest size influence the risk of ectoparasitism in avian nests., Financial support was provided by grants from Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MCI) and FEDER (CGL2010-19233-C03-01), from Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (CGL2017-89063-P, CGL2017-83103-P), by a predoctoral fellowship from MCI to CRC, by Junta para Ampliación de Estudios programme to MRR, and by Juan de la Cierva and Ramón y Cajal programmes to GT., Peer reviewed

It contains data collected in Guadix, Granada (southeast Spain) in 2019, in the framework of a research to evaluate the effects of chemical and auditory cues of hoopoes (Upupa epops) in repellence and attraction of blood-feeding flies. Dataset includes number of mosquitoes, blackflies and biting midges collected in insect traps in the field in four habitat types and two sampling periods, in relation to different chemical and auditory stimuli derived from nestlings of this bird species., Financial support was provided by grants from the Spanish Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (CGL2017-89063-P, CGL2017-83103-P). GT was also supported by the Ramón y Cajal Programme. We acknowledge support of the publication fee by the CSIC Open Access Publication Support Initiative through its Unit of Information Resources for Research (URICI)., Peer reviewed

Data sampled in “Hoya de Guadix”, Granada, Spain, during breeding seasons (March-July) 2016 and 2019., Data file includes information about identity of each sampled starling nestling, the experiment and treatment assigned to them, biometric measurements on day 10 and day 14, and measurements of colour variables. Colour variables include colouration of eggshells (measured as Brightness and Blue-green chroma for eggs laid on the nest where each nestling was born (nest of origin), and the eggs laid on the nest where each nestling grew (nest of rearing)), and colouration of begging related traits (measured as Mean bright, Total hue, UV hue, Yellow-red hue, UV croma, Yellow-red chroma and Carotenoid chroma) for each body part (mouth, flanges and skin). The data set also includes the plasma carotenoid concentration of each sampled nestling., Ester Martínez Renau was financed by a predoctoral contract (PRE2018-085378), while the whole research group received funds from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades, and European (FEDER) (CGL2017-83103-P)., Peer reviewed

This dataset introduces HESML V1R5 which is the fifth release of the Half-Edge Semantic Measures Library (HESML) detailed in [13]. HESML V1R5 is a linearly scalable and efficient Java software library of ontology-based semantic similarity measures and Information Content (IC) models for ontolgies like WordNet, SNOMED-CT, MeSH, GO and any other ontologies based on the OBO file format. HESML V1R5 implements most ontology-based semantic similarity measures and Information Content (IC) models reported in the literature, as well as the evaluation of three pre-trained word embedding models. It also provides a XML-based input file format in order to specify the execution of reproducible word/concept similarity experiments based on WordNet, SNOMED-CT, MeSH, or GO without software coding. HESML V1R5 introduces the following novelties: (1) the parsing and in-memory representation of the SNOMED-CT, MeSH and any other ontologies based on the OBO file format such as the Gene Ontology (GO); (2) a new collection of efficient path-based similarity measures based on the reformulation of previous path-based measures which are based on the new Ancestors-based Shortest-Path Length (AncSPL) algorithm; and (3) a collection of groupwise similarity measures. HESML library is freely distributed for any non-commercial purpose under a CC By-NC-SA-4.0 license, subject to the citing of the two mains HESML papers as attribution requirement. However, HESML distribution also includes other datasets, databases or data files whose use require the attribution acknowledgement by any user of HEMSL. Thus, we urge to the HESML users to fulfill with licensing terms related to other resources distributed with the library as detailed in its companion release notes.

Semantic Textual Similarity (also known as Semantic Short-text Similarity) is a research problem that aims to calculate the similarity among text units (phrases, sentences, paragraphs or texts) focusing on the semantic content. The importance of Semantic Similarity in Natural Language Processing has increased in the last years due to its relevance in many tasks and applications, such as Automatic Summarization, Machine Translation, Question Answering or Semantic Indexing. UB-NER is a self-contained Java software library for benchmarking state-of-the-art STS measures in the biomedical domain. It allows to define and execute a set of experiments combining different measures and preprocessing methods. This dataset contains the reproducibility framework and dependencies, whose aim is to allow the exact replication of unsupervised named entity recognition experiment in the biomedical domain as detailed in "ReproductionProtocol.pdf" file.

This dataset introduces a set of reproducibility resources with the aim of allowing the exact replication of the experiments introduced by our companion paper, which compare the performance of the three UMLS-based semantic similarity libraries reported in the literature as follows: (1) UMLS::Similarity [20], (2) Semantic Measures Library (SML) [3], and the latest version of our Half-Edge Semantic Measures Library (HESML) introduced in our aforementioned companion paper. HESML V1R5 is the fifth release of our Half-Edge Semantic Measures Library (HESML) detailed in [15] which is a linearly scalable and efficient Java software library of ontology-based semantic similarity measures and Information Content (IC) models for ontologies like WordNet, SNOMED-CT, MeSH and GO. This dataset sets a self-contained reproducibility platform which contains the Java source code and binaries of our main benchmark program, as well as a Docker image which allows the exact replication of our experiments in any software platform supported by Docker, such as all Linux-based operating systems, Windows or MacOS. Our benchmark program is distributed with the UMLS SNOMED-CT and MeSH ontologies by courtesy of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM), as well as all needed software components with the aim of making the setup process easier. Our Docker image provides an exact virtual replica of the machine in which we ran our experiments, thus removing the need to carry-out any tedious setup process, such as the setup of the UMLS Metathesaurus on MySQL database, UMLS::Similarity library and other software components.