Maternal and genetic factors determine early life telomere length

Meta-analysis of telomere length in 19 713 subjects reveals high heritability, stronger maternal inheritance and a paternal age effect

(2013) Linda Broer et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Inconsistent inheritance of telomere length (TL): is offspring TL more strongly correlated with maternal or paternal TL?

(2013) Dan T A Eisenberg   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Extent and variability of interstitial telomeric sequences and their effects on estimates of telomere length

(2013) Christopher G. Foote et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Telomere length and dynamics predict mortality in a wild longitudinal study

(2012) Emma L. B. Barrett et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Primary peak and chronic malaria infection levels are correlated in experimentally infected great reed warblers

(2012) MUHAMMAD ASGHAR et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Telomere length in early life predicts lifespan

(2012) B. J. Heidinger et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Effects of brood size manipulation and common origin on phenotype and telomere length in nestling collared flycatchers

(2012) Marie Voillemot et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

Are chronic avian haemosporidian infections costly in wild birds?

(2011) Muhammad Asghar et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Telomere elongation followed by telomere length reduction, in leukocytes from divers exposed to intense oxidative stress – Implications for tissue and organismal aging

(2011) Liran I. Shlush et al.   MECHANISMS OF AGEING AND DEVELOPMENT

Leukocyte telomere length, breast cancer risk in the offspring: The relations with father's age at birth

(2011) Konstantin G. Arbeev et al.   MECHANISMS OF AGEING AND DEVELOPMENT

Inheritance of Telomere Length in a Bird

(2011) Thorsten Horn et al.   PLoS One

Sex Differences in Sand Lizard Telomere Inheritance: Paternal Epigenetic Effects Increases Telomere Heritability and Offspring Survival

(2011) Mats Olsson et al.   PLoS One

Stress exposure in intrauterine life is associated with shorter telomere length in young adulthood

(2011) S. Entringer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Quantitative disease resistance: to better understand parasite-mediated selection on major histocompatibility complex

(2011) H. Westerdahl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

An evolutionary review of human telomere biology: The thrifty telomere hypothesis and notes on potential adaptive paternal effects

(2010) Dan T.A. Eisenberg   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN BIOLOGY

Telomeres and life histories: the long and the short of it

(2010) Pat Monaghan   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Egg size and offspring quality: a meta-analysis in birds

(2010) Miloš Krist   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

The use of telomere length in ecology and evolutionary biology

(2010) T Horn et al.   HEREDITY

A strong quantitative trait locus for wing length on chromosome 2 in a wild population of great reed warblers

(2010) M. Tarka et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Large-scale parent–child comparison confirms a strong paternal influence on telomere length

(2009) Katarina Nordfjäll et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Poor maternal nutrition followed by accelerated postnatal growth leads to telomere shortening and increased markers of cell senescence in rat islets

(2009) J. L. Tarry-Adkins et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

An ecologist’s guide to the animal model

(2009) Alastair J. Wilson et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Real-time quantitative PCR assay for measurement of avian telomeres

(2009) François Criscuolo et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Chronic oxidative stress induces a tissue-specific reduction in telomere length in CAST/Ei mice

(2008) Valerie Cattan et al.   FREE RADICAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE

Experimental reduction of incubation temperature affects both nestling and adult blue titsCyanistes caeruleus

(2008) Johan F. Nilsson et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Maternal transfer of antibodies in vertebrates: trans-generational effects on offspring immunity

(2008) D. Hasselquist et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Offspring's Leukocyte Telomere Length, Paternal Age, and Telomere Elongation in Sperm

(2008) Masayuki Kimura et al.   PLoS Genetics

Estimating Heritabilities and Genetic Correlations: Comparing the ‘Animal Model’ with Parent-Offspring Regression Using Data from a Natural Population

(2008) Mikael Åkesson et al.   PLoS One

Factors impacting human telomere homeostasis and age-related disease

(2007) David Gilley et al.   MECHANISMS OF AGEING AND DEVELOPMENT