ArticleMethods in ecology and evolution2014
Measuring telomere length and telomere dynamics in evolutionary biology and ecology.
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89 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Parental Age Effects on Offspring Telomere Length Across Vertebrates: A Meta-Analysis.Molecular ecology · 2026Pooled it
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- The relationship between telomere length and mortality risk in non-model vertebrate systems: a meta-analysis.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Pooled it
- Effects of aging on the male reproductive system.Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics · 2016Pooled it
- Depression and telomere length: A meta-analysis.Journal of affective disorders · 2016Pooled it
- Reproductive Drivers of Temporal Telomere Dynamics in Female Tree Swallows.Molecular ecology · 2026Article
- Ageing in Honeybees: Telomere Length Is Driven by Climate and Resource Availability Rather Than Urbanisation or Pollution.Global change biology · 2026Article
- Optimized primer and model improve precision of X chromosome telomere length determination in the Han population.iScience · 2026Article
- Why Differences in Methods and Resulting Misinterpretation of Telomere Data Might Affect Our Perspective on Aging and Its Reversibility by Clinical Interventions.Neuroimmunomodulation · 2026Article
- Telomere Length Abnormality: Investigating Approaches and Correlations with Cancer, Bone Marrow Failure and Hematological Malignancies.Biomedicines · 2025Review
- Is Telomere Length Optimized in Hatchling Sand Lizards?Evolution & development · 2025Article
- Investigation of the Characteristics of Telomere Length in Koreans and Its Association With Chronic Metabolic Disorders: A Comprehensive Study.Journal of cellular and molecular medicine · 2025Article
- A COMPREHENSIVE CATALOG OF TELOMERE CONTENT VARIATION ACROSS HUMAN POPULATIONS.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- No Evidence That Life History Strategies Shape Within-Body Mosaics of Ageing.Molecular ecology · 2025Article
- Telomere dynamics in maturing frogs vary among organs.Biology letters · 2025Article
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- Ionizing radiation has negligible effects on the age, telomere length and corticosterone levels of Chornobyl tree frogs.Biology letters · 2024Article
- High-throughput single telomere analysis using DNA microarray and fluorescent in situ hybridization.Nucleic acids research · 2024Article
- DNA methylation-based telomere length is associated with HIV infection, physical frailty, cancer, and all-cause mortality.Aging cell · 2024Article
- No correlative evidence of costs of infection or immunity on leucocyte telomere length in a wild population of Soay sheep.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
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Abstract
Telomeres play a fundamental role in the protection of chromosomal DNA and in the regulation of cellular senescence. Recent work in human epidemiology and evolutionary ecology suggests adult telomere length (TL) may reflect past physiological stress and predict subsequent morbidity and mortality, independent of chronological age.Several different methods have been developed to measure TL, each offering its own technical challenges. The aim of this review is to provide an overview of the advantages and drawbacks of each method for researchers, with a particular focus on issues that are likely to face ecologists and evolutionary biologists collecting samples in the field or in organisms that may never have been studied in this context before.We discuss the key issues to consider and wherever possible try to provide current consensus view regarding best practice with regard to sample collection and storage, DNA extraction and storage, and the five main methods currently available to measure TL.Decisions regarding which tissues to sample, how to store them, how to extract DNA, and which TL measurement method to use cannot be prescribed, and are dependent on the biological question addressed and the constraints imposed by the study system. What is essential for future studies of telomere dynamics in evolution and ecology is that researchers publish full details of their methods and the quality control thresholds they employ.
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