Table 1. References for the meta analysis.

References	Size	Species
[11]	20	Centrarchid fishes
[12]	17	Tropical Savannah bat
[13]	19	Tribe collinsieae
[14]	37	Tinamous
[15]	24	Lizards
[16]	34	Lizards
[17]	11	Macaranga ant-plants
[18]	27	Ungulates macropods
[19]	10	Drosophila
[20]	29	Pine
[21]	40	Parasitoid wasps
[22]	14	Notothenioid fishes
[23]	12	Gobies
[24]	14	Snow skinks
[25]	17	Anurans
[26]	20	Drosophila
[27]	17	Lizard
[28]	22	Neotropical marsupials
[29]	117	Diurnal raptors
[30]	21	Cnidaria
[31]	18	Ungulates
[32]	37	Woodcreepers
[33]	9	Lizards
[34]	42	Figs

Phylogenies and comparative data are collected from the literature. The sample sizes (the number of the taxa) are shown is the second column.