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Inheritance of telomere length in a bird.
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- Environmental and Genetic Determinants of Early-Life Telomere Length in Tree Swallows.Molecular ecology · 2026Article
- Assortative breeding experiment in a songbird suggests telomere length is determined during early life rather than at conception.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Sex Differences in Telomere Length in a Bat With Female-Biased Longevity.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Increased Reproductive Output and Telomere Shortening Following Calcium Supplementation in a Wild Songbird.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Hidden impacts of conservation management on fertility of the critically endangered kākāpō.PeerJ · 2023Article
- Evidence of Paternal Effects on Telomere Length Increases in Early Life.Frontiers in genetics · 2022Article
- No sex differences in adult telomere length across vertebrates: a meta-analysis.Royal Society open science · 2020Article
- The deteriorating soma and the indispensable germline: gamete senescence and offspring fitness.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- The Genetic Architecture of Bovine Telomere Length in Early Life and Association With Animal Fitness.Frontiers in genetics · 2019Article
- The mitochondrial genome, paternal age and telomere length in humans.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Article
- Heritability of telomere variation: it is all about the environment!Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Review
- Longitudinal changes in telomere length and associated genetic parameters in dairy cattle analysed using random regression models.PloS one · 2018Article
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- Age at maturation has sex- and temperature-specific effects on telomere length in a fish.Oecologia · 2017Article
- Is telomere length associated with mate choice in a songbird with a high rate of extra-pair paternity?PloS one · 2017Article
- Interactions between parental traits, environmental harshness and growth rate in determining telomere length in wild juvenile salmon.Molecular ecology · 2016Article
- How Do Growth and Sibling Competition Affect Telomere Dynamics in the First Month of Life of Long-Lived Seabird?PloS one · 2016Article
- On being the right size: increased body size is associated with reduced telomere length under natural conditions.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2015Article
- Rapid growth accelerates telomere attrition in a transgenic fish.BMC evolutionary biology · 2015Article
- Mother-offspring and nest-mate resemblance but no heritability in early-life telomere length in white-throated dippers.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2015Article
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Abstract
Telomere dynamics are intensively studied in human ageing research and epidemiology, with many correlations reported between telomere length and age-related diseases, cancer and death. While telomere length is influenced by environmental factors there is also good evidence for a strong heritable component. In human, the mode of telomere length inheritance appears to be paternal and telomere length differs between sexes, with females having longer telomeres than males. Genetic factors, e.g. sex chromosomal inactivation, and non-genetic factors, e.g. antioxidant properties of oestrogen, have been suggested as possible explanations for these sex-specific telomere inheritance and telomere length differences. To test the influence of sex chromosomes on telomere length, we investigated inheritance and sex-specificity of telomere length in a bird species, the kakapo (Strigops habroptilus), in which females are the heterogametic sex (ZW) and males are the homogametic (ZZ) sex. We found that, contrary to findings in humans, telomere length was maternally inherited and also longer in males. These results argue against an effect of sex hormones on telomere length and suggest that factors associated with heterogamy may play a role in telomere inheritance and sex-specific differences in telomere length.
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