ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2022
Hot and dry conditions predict shorter nestling telomeres in an endangered songbird: Implications for population persistence.
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- Pervasive sublethal impacts of heat exposure revealed by telomere dynamics.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2026Article
- Telomere Length at Recruitment Predicts Lifespan and Lifetime Reproductive Success in the Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica).Molecular ecology · 2026Article
- Ageing in Honeybees: Telomere Length Is Driven by Climate and Resource Availability Rather Than Urbanisation or Pollution.Global change biology · 2026Article
- Mothers Matter Most: Maternal, but Not Paternal, Age and Inbreeding Affect Nestling Telomere Length in a Wild Passerine.Molecular ecology · 2026Article
- Postnatal temperature triggers predictable thermoregulatory shifts in birds without a trade-off between heat and cold tolerance.The Journal of experimental biology · 2026Article
- Is Telomere Length Optimized in Hatchling Sand Lizards?Evolution & development · 2025Article
- Telomere Length Differences Indicate Climate Change-Induced Stress and Population Decline in a Migratory Bird.Molecular ecology · 2025Article
- Cooperative breeding does not mitigate declines in offspring care with cool and wet conditions in a temperate Australian songbird.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- A future food boom rescues the negative effects of early-life adversity on adult lifespan in a small mammal.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Linking telomere dynamics to evolution, life history and environmental change: perspectives, predictions and problems.Biogerontology · 2024Review
- Early-life telomere length predicts life-history strategy and reproductive senescence in a threatened wild songbird.Molecular ecology · 2023Article
- Telomere DNA length regulation is influenced by seasonal temperature differences in short-lived but not in long-lived reef-building corals.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Temperature, size and developmental plasticity in birds.Biology letters · 2022Review
- Causes and consequences of variation in early-life telomere length in a bird metapopulation.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Group size predicts prenatal investment and offspring growth in a cooperatively breeding bird.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Climate warming is increasingly exposing wildlife to sublethal high temperatures, which may lead to chronic impacts and reduced fitness. Telomere length (TL) may link heat exposure to fitness, particularly at early-life stages, because developing organisms are especially vulnerable to adverse conditions, adversity can shorten telomeres, and TL predicts fitness. Here, we quantify how climatic and environmental conditions during early life are associated with TL in nestlings of wild purple-crowned fairy-wrens (
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