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ArticleNature aging2026

Spontaneous aging-associated inflammation and genome instability in the immune system of turquoise killifish.

Gabriele Morabito, Handan Melike Dönertas, Luca Sperti, Jens Seidel, Aysan Poursadegh Zonouzi, Michael Poeschla, Dario Riccardo Valenzano

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Article in Nature aging, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
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  3. Killiverse: an interactive multi-omics web resource for killifish.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  4. Engulfment by brain macrophages in a short-lived vertebrate.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors.

Gabriele MorabitoMax Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany.
Handan Melike DönertasMax Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9788-6535
Luca SpertiLeibniz Institute on Aging, Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI), Jena, Germany.
Jens SeidelMax Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0009-8039-4524
Aysan Poursadegh ZonouziMax Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany.
Michael PoeschlaMax Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany.
Dario Riccardo ValenzanoMax Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany. dvalenzano@leibniz-fli.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8761-8289

Funding

Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game (DFG) CRC1310
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Turquoise killifish (Nothobranchius furzeri) are naturally short-lived vertebrates that recapitulate key aspects of human aging. However, the molecular and cellular causes of systemic aging in killifish are poorly understood. Here we ask whether killifish undergo age-dependent changes in the main hematopoietic organ (kidney marrow), which may contribute to systemic aging. To characterize immune aging in killifish, we used single-cell RNA sequencing, cytometry and functional in vitro assays on kidney marrow cells from young-adult and old killifish, together with proteomic profiling of both kidney marrow-derived cells and plasma. We show that old killifish display increased markers of inflammation; while immune progenitor-like cell clusters from adult killifish display markers of active proliferation and replication-independent DNA repair, immune cell progenitors from old killifish display increased markers of DNA damage. Within less than 10 weeks, killifish exhibit age-related transformations within the immune system, underscoring the value of killifish for developing immune-system-targeted antiaging interventions.

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AgingFundulidaeGenomic InstabilityImmune SystemInflammationAnimalsDNA DamageKillifishes

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PMCPMC13004682

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