High heritability of telomere length and low heritability of telomere shortening in wild birds.
ageing
early-life
inheritance
life-history
quantitative genetics
senescence
Journal
Molecular ecology
ISSN: 1365-294X
Titre abrégé: Mol Ecol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9214478
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
12 2022
12 2022
Historique:
revised:
06
08
2021
received:
16
12
2020
accepted:
08
09
2021
pubmed:
18
9
2021
medline:
31
1
2023
entrez:
17
9
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Telomere length and telomere shortening predict survival in many organisms. This raises the question of the contribution of genetic and environmental effects to variation in these traits, which is still poorly known, particularly for telomere shortening. We used experimental (cross-fostering) and statistical (quantitative genetic "animal models") means to disentangle and estimate genetic and environmental contributions to telomere length variation in pedigreed free-living jackdaws (Corvus monedula). Telomere length was measured twice in nestlings, at ages 4 (n = 715) and 29 days (n = 474), using telomere restriction fragment (TRF) analysis, adapted to exclude interstitial telomeric sequences. Telomere length shortened significantly over the nestling period (10.4 ± 0.3 bp day
Identifiants
pubmed: 34532917
doi: 10.1111/mec.16183
pmc: PMC9787985
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
6308-6323Informations de copyright
© 2021 The Authors. Molecular Ecology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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