ArticleBiology letters2017
Offspring telomere length in the long lived Alpine swift is negatively related to the age of their biological father and foster mother.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 35 citations in OpenAlex.
- Parental Age Effects on Offspring Telomere Length Across Vertebrates: A Meta-Analysis.Molecular ecology · 2026Pooled it
- Mothers Matter Most: Maternal, but Not Paternal, Age and Inbreeding Affect Nestling Telomere Length in a Wild Passerine.Molecular ecology · 2026Article
- Evidence of Paternal Effects on Telomere Length Increases in Early Life.Frontiers in genetics · 2022Article
- Parental age at conception on mouse lemur's offspring longevity: Sex-specific maternal effects.PloS one · 2022Article
- Longitudinal evidence that older parents produce offspring with longer telomeres in a wild social bird.Biology letters · 2021Article
- Telomere attrition with age in a wild amphibian population.Biology letters · 2020Article
- The deteriorating soma and the indispensable germline: gamete senescence and offspring fitness.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Intergenerational effects on offspring telomere length: interactions among maternal age, stress exposure and offspring sex.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Older paternal ages and grandpaternal ages at conception predict longer telomeres in human descendants.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Epigenetic inheritance of telomere length in wild birds.PLoS genetics · 2019Article
- Paternal age at conception effects on offspring telomere length across species-What explains the variability?PLoS genetics · 2019Article
- Reduced telomere length in offspring of old fathers in a long-lived seabird.Biology letters · 2018Article
- Experimental demonstration that offspring fathered by old males have shorter telomeres and reduced lifespans.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
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Abstract
A growing body of studies is showing that offspring telomere length (TL) can be influenced by the age of their parents. Such a relationship might be explained by variation in TL at conception (gamete effect) and/or by alteration of early growth conditions in species providing parental care. In a long-lived bird with bi-parental care, the Alpine swift (
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