ReviewEcology and evolution2021
The influence of phylogeny and life history on telomere lengths and telomere rate of change among bird species: A meta-analysis.
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- Telomere Length at Recruitment Predicts Lifespan and Lifetime Reproductive Success in the Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica).Molecular ecology · 2026Article
- 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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- Linking telomere dynamics to evolution, life history and environmental change: perspectives, predictions and problems.Biogerontology · 2024Review
- Telomeres and telomerase: active but complex players in life-history decisions.Biogerontology · 2024Review
- Why and when should organisms elongate their telomeres? Elaborations on the 'excess resources elongation' and 'last resort elongation' hypotheses.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Temperature-independent telomere lengthening with age in the long-lived human fish (Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Two aspects of longevity are associated with rates of loss of telomeres in birds.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Erratum:.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Waterbird solves the string-pull test.Royal Society open science · 2021Article
- The influence of phylogeny and life history on telomere lengths and telomere rate of change among bird species: A meta-analysis.Ecology and evolution · 2021Review
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- Erratum issuedErratum:.2022
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Abstract
Longevity is highly variable among animal species and has coevolved with other life-history traits, such as body size and rates of reproduction. Telomeres, through their erosion over time, are one of the cell mechanisms that produce senescence at the cell level and might even have an influence on the rate of aging in whole organisms. However, uneroded telomeres are also risk factors of cell immortalization. The associations of telomere lengths, their rate of change, and life-history traits independent of body size are largely underexplored for birds. To test associations of life-history traits and telomere dynamics, we conducted a phylogenetic meta-analysis using studies of 53 species of birds. We restricted analyses to studies that applied the telomere restriction fragment length (TRF) method, and examined relationships between mean telomere length at the chick (
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