2019
DOI: 10.1111/mec.15212
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Individual variation in early‐life telomere length and survival in a wild mammal

Abstract: Individual variation in survival probability due to differential responses to early‐life environmental conditions is important in the evolution of life histories and senescence. A biomarker allowing quantification of such individual variation, and which links early‐life environmental conditions with survival by providing a measure of conditions experienced, is telomere length. Here, we examined telomere dynamics among 24 cohorts of European badgers (Meles meles). We found a complex cross‐sectional relationship… Show more

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“…Badgers were aged by the number of days elapsed since the 14 th of February in the respective birth year (Yamaguchi et al, 2006). Individuals first caught as adults were aged through tooth wear, where tooth wear 2 indicates a 1-year old adult (van Lieshout et al, 2019). Blood was collected by jugular venipuncture into vacutainers with an EDTA anticoagulant and stored at -20°C immediately.…”
Section: Study Systemmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Badgers were aged by the number of days elapsed since the 14 th of February in the respective birth year (Yamaguchi et al, 2006). Individuals first caught as adults were aged through tooth wear, where tooth wear 2 indicates a 1-year old adult (van Lieshout et al, 2019). Blood was collected by jugular venipuncture into vacutainers with an EDTA anticoagulant and stored at -20°C immediately.…”
Section: Study Systemmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The effects of PAC and MAC on offspring RLTL were subsequently tested using linear mixed effect models in lme4 1.1-14 (Bates, Machler, Bolker, & Walker, 2015). The model included fixed covariates for the best-fitting age relationship with RLTL, which was a threshold model (van Lieshout et al, 2019), and a fixed factor for season. Individual ID, cohort, year, qPCR plate, row on qPCR plate, maternal ID, paternal ID and social group were included as random effects.…”
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confidence: 99%
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