ArticlePloS one2013
Telomere length correlations among somatic tissues in adult zebra finches.
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- A novel carnivorous diet reduces brain telomere length.Biology letters · 2025Article
- Finding biomarkers of experience in animals.Journal of animal science and biotechnology · 2024Review
- What happens when the lights are left on? Transcriptomic and phenotypic habituation to light pollution.iScience · 2024Article
- Ageing across the great divide: tissue transformation, organismal growth and temperature shape telomere dynamics through the metamorphic transition.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Telomere length predicts timing and intensity of migratory behaviour in a nomadic songbird.Biology letters · 2022Article
- Telomere length declines with age, but relates to immune function independent of age in a wild passerine.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- A multi-tissue view on telomere dynamics and postnatal growth.Journal of experimental zoology. Part A, Ecological and integrative physiology · 2022Article
- A standalone approach to utilize telomere length measurement as a surveillance tool in oral leukoplakia.Molecular oncology · 2022Article
- Exposure to food insecurity increases energy storage and reduces somatic maintenance in European starlings (Royal Society open science · 2021Article
- Pace and stability of embryonic development affect telomere dynamics: an experimental study in a precocial bird model.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Telomere length varies substantially between blood cell types in a reptile.Royal Society open science · 2020Article
- Gull chicks grow faster but lose telomeres when prenatal cues mismatch the real presence of sibling competitors.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Inactivity and Skeletal Muscle Metabolism: A Vicious Cycle in Old Age.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020Review
- Cellular Senescence in Neurodegenerative Diseases.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2020Review
- Distinct telomere differences within a reproductively bimodal common lizard population.Functional ecology · 2019Article
- Perinatal variation and covariation of oxidative status and telomere length in yellow-legged gull chicks.Current zoology · 2019Article
- Telomeres and Longevity: A Cause or an Effect?International journal of molecular sciences · 2019Article
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Abstract
Telomeres are repetitive non coding DNA sequences located at the end of eukaryotic chromosomes, which maintain the integrity of the genome by hiding the chromosome ends from being recognised as double stranded breaks. Telomeres are emerging as biomarkers for ageing and survival, and are susceptible to reflect different individual life history trajectories. In particular, the telomere length with which one starts in life has been shown to be linked with individual life-long survival, suggesting that telomere dynamics can be a proxy for individual fitness and thereby be implicated in evolutionary trade-offs. As a consequence, an increasing number of studies were conducted on telomeres in the fields of ecology and evolutionary biology, in which telomere length was almost exclusively measured from blood samples. However, not only do the number of repeats of the telomeric sequences vary among species, but also within species with great inter-individual telomere lengths variability with age, tissues, and chromosomes. This raises the issue of the exact biological meaning of telomere measurement in blood cells and stimulated the study of the correlation of telomere lengths among tissues over age. By measuring telomere length in adult zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) in different somatic tissues displaying variable cell turnovers (bone marrow, brain, spleen, pectoral muscle, heart, liver and in red blood cells), we checked that the measure of telomere length in red blood cells is related to telomere lengths in the other tissues. Here we show significant relationships between the telomere lengths of red blood cells and several somatic tissues at adulthood. As red blood cells are easily accessible and suitable for the longitudinal monitoring of the individual rate of telomere loss, our study confirms that telomere length measured in red blood cells could serve as a surrogate for telomere length in the whole avian organism.
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