ArticleBiology letters2017
Age-dependent associations between telomere length and environmental conditions in roe deer.
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- Telomere Length Is Determined by Intrinsic Factors and Is Shortened During Drought Years inEcology and evolution · 2026Article
- Telomere DNA length regulation is influenced by seasonal temperature differences in short-lived but not in long-lived reef-building corals.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Longitudinal telomere dynamics within natural lifespans of a wild bird.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Large mammal telomere length variation across ecoregions.BMC ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Causes and consequences of variation in early-life telomere length in a bird metapopulation.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- No sex differences in adult telomere length across vertebrates: a meta-analysis.Royal Society open science · 2020Article
- Contrasting seasonal patterns of telomere dynamics in response to environmental conditions in the ectothermic sand lizard, Lacerta agilis.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Does body growth impair immune function in a large herbivore?Oecologia · 2019Article
- The Genetic Architecture of Bovine Telomere Length in Early Life and Association With Animal Fitness.Frontiers in genetics · 2019Article
- Bovine telomere dynamics and the association between telomere length and productive lifespan.Scientific reports · 2018Article
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Abstract
Telomere length (TL) represents a promising biomarker of overall physiological state and of past environmental experiences, which could help us understand the drivers of life-history variation in natural populations. A growing number of studies in birds suggest that environmental stress or poor environmental conditions are associated with shortened TL, but studies of such relationships in wild mammals are lacking. Here, we compare leucocyte TL from cross-sectional samples collected from two French populations of roe deer which experience different environmental conditions. We found that, as predicted, TL was shorter in the population experiencing poor environmental conditions but that this difference was only significant in older individuals and was independent of sex and body mass. Unexpectedly, the difference was underpinned by a significant increase in TL with age in the population experiencing good environmental conditions, while there was no detectable relationship with age in poor conditions. These results demonstrate both the environmental sensitivity and complexity of telomere dynamics in natural mammal populations, and highlight the importance of longitudinal data to disentangle the within- and among-individual processes that generate them.
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