ArticleMolecular ecology2016
Interactions between parental traits, environmental harshness and growth rate in determining telomere length in wild juvenile salmon.
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- Linking telomere dynamics to evolution, life history and environmental change: perspectives, predictions and problems.Biogerontology · 2024Review
- Sex and early-life conditions shape telomere dynamics in an ectotherm.The Journal of experimental biology · 2024Article
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- Does pre-spawning catch and release angling affect offspring telomere dynamics in Atlantic salmon?Conservation physiology · 2023Article
- Habitat restoration weakens negative environmental effects on telomere dynamics.Molecular ecology · 2022Article
- Causes and consequences of variation in early-life telomere length in a bird metapopulation.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- A multi-tissue view on telomere dynamics and postnatal growth.Journal of experimental zoology. Part A, Ecological and integrative physiology · 2022Article
- Integrative Studies of the Effects of Mothers on Offspring: An Example from Wild North American Red Squirrels.Advances in neurobiology · 2022Article
- Molecular basis of parental contributions to the behavioural tolerance of elevated pCOProceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Growth, body condition and contest performance after early-life food restriction in a long-lived tropical fish.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Fish from urban rivers and with high pollutant levels have shorter telomeres.Biology letters · 2021Article
- No sex differences in adult telomere length across vertebrates: a meta-analysis.Royal Society open science · 2020Article
- Telomere attrition with age in a wild amphibian population.Biology letters · 2020Article
- Maternal predator-exposure affects offspring size at birth but not telomere length in a live-bearing fish.Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
- Distinct telomere differences within a reproductively bimodal common lizard population.Functional ecology · 2019Article
- Telomere attrition predicts reduced survival in a wild social bird, but short telomeres do not.Molecular ecology · 2019Article
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Abstract
A larger body size confers many benefits, such as increased reproductive success, ability to evade predators and increased competitive ability and social status. However, individuals rarely maximize their growth rates, suggesting that this carries costs. One such cost could be faster attrition of the telomeres that cap the ends of eukaryotic chromosomes and play an important role in chromosome protection. A relatively short telomere length is indicative of poor biological state, including poorer tissue and organ performance, reduced potential longevity and increased disease susceptibility. Telomere loss during growth may also be accelerated by environmental factors, but these have rarely been subjected to experimental manipulation in the natural environment. Using a wild system involving experimental manipulations of juvenile Atlantic salmon Salmo salar in Scottish streams, we found that telomere length in juvenile fish was influenced by parental traits and by direct environmental effects. We found that faster-growing fish had shorter telomeres and there was a greater cost (in terms of reduced telomere length) if the growth occurred in a harsher environment. We also found a positive association between offspring telomere length and the growth history of their fathers (but not mothers), represented by the number of years fathers had spent at sea. This suggests that there may be long-term consequences of growth conditions and parental life history for individual longevity.
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