Measuring telomere length and telomere dynamics in evolutionary biology and ecology

Tracking and fixed ranking of leukocyte telomere length across the adult life course

(2013) Athanase Benetos et al.   AGING CELL

A statistical approach to distinguish telomere elongation from error in longitudinal datasets

(2013) Mirre J. P. Simons et al.   BIOGERONTOLOGY

Environmental perturbations influence telomere dynamics in long-lived birds in their natural habitat

(2013) Y. Mizutani et al.   Biology Letters

Telomere Length Varies By DNA Extraction Method: Implications for Epidemiologic Research

(2013) J. M. Cunningham et al.   CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY BIOMARKERS & PREVENTION

Do leukocyte telomere length dynamics depend on baseline telomere length? An analysis that corrects for ‘regression to the mean’

(2013) Simon Verhulst et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Telomere length, non-breeding habitat and return rate in male American redstarts

(2013) Frédéric Angelier et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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

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

The telomere lengthening conundrum—artifact or biology?

(2013) Troels Steenstrup et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Age, Sex, and Telomere Dynamics in a Long-Lived Seabird with Male-Biased Parental Care

(2013) Rebecca C. Young et al.   PLoS One

Telomeres shorten at equivalent rates in somatic tissues of adults

(2013) Lily Daniali et al.   Nature Communications

Empirical evaluation of humpback whale telomere length estimates; quality control and factors causing variability in the singleplex and multiplex qPCR methods

(2012) Morten Olsen et al.   BMC GENETICS

Absolute standards as a useful addition to the avian quantitative PCR telomere assay

(2012) Emma L. B. Barrett et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Hot topic: Association of telomere length with age, herd, and culling in lactating Holsteins

(2012) D.E. Brown et al.   JOURNAL OF DAIRY SCIENCE

Telomere length and dynamics predict mortality in a wild longitudinal study

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

The telomere syndromes

(2012) Mary Armanios et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

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

Telomere length reflects phenotypic quality and costs of reproduction in a long-lived seabird

(2012) C. Bauch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Rate of Increase of Short Telomeres Predicts Longevity in Mammals

(2012) Elsa Vera et al.   Cell Reports

A model of canine leukocyte telomere dynamics

(2011) Athanase Benetos et al.   AGING CELL

Comparative biology of mammalian telomeres: hypotheses on ancestral states and the roles of telomeres in longevity determination

(2011) Nuno M. V. Gomes et al.   AGING CELL

Daily torpor is associated with telomere length change over winter in Djungarian hamsters

(2011) C. Turbill et al.   Biology Letters

Telomere measurement tools: Telometric produces biased estimates of telomere length

(2011) M F Haussmann et al.   HEREDITY

Chasing telomeres, not red herrings, in evolutionary ecology

(2011) S Smith et al.   HEREDITY

Catching-up but telomere loss: half-opening the black box of growth and ageing trade-off in wild king penguin chicks

(2011) SYLVIE GEIGER et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Telomere length measurement—Caveats and a critical assessment of the available technologies and tools

(2011) Geraldine Aubert et al.   MUTATION RESEARCH-FUNDAMENTAL AND MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF MUTAGENESIS

Measurement of telomere DNA content by dot blot analysis

(2011) M. Kimura et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Impartial comparative analysis of measurement of leukocyte telomere length/DNA content by Southern blots and qPCR

(2011) A. Aviv et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Blood Cell Telomere Length Is a Dynamic Feature

(2011) Ulrika Svenson et al.   PLoS One

Reliability and Short-Term Intra-Individual Variability of Telomere Length Measurement Using Monochrome Multiplexing Quantitative PCR

(2011) Sangmi Kim et al.   PLoS One

Embryonic exposure to corticosterone modifies the juvenile stress response, oxidative stress and telomere length

(2011) M. F. Haussmann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Quantifying individual variation in reaction norms: how study design affects the accuracy, precision and power of random regression models

(2011) Martijn van de Pol   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

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

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

Telomere dysfunction and fusion during the progression of chronic lymphocytic leukemia: evidence for a telomere crisis

(2010) T. T. Lin et al.   BLOOD

Hematopoietic Stem Cell Heterogeneity: Subtypes, Not Unpredictable Behavior

(2010) Timm Schroeder   Cell Stem Cell

Synchrony of telomere length among hematopoietic cells

(2010) Masayuki Kimura et al.   EXPERIMENTAL HEMATOLOGY

Telomere biology in Metazoa

(2010) Nuno M.V. Gomes et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Crossing the great divide: telomeres and ecology

(2010) P Monaghan   HEREDITY

The use of telomere length in ecology and evolutionary biology

(2010) T Horn et al.   HEREDITY

Measurement of telomere length by the Southern blot analysis of terminal restriction fragment lengths

(2010) Masayuki Kimura et al.   Nature Protocols

Telomere Length Trajectory and Its Determinants in Persons with Coronary Artery Disease: Longitudinal Findings from the Heart and Soul Study

(2010) Ramin Farzaneh-Far et al.   PLoS One

Characterization of Oxidative Guanine Damage and Repair in Mammalian Telomeres

(2010) Zhilong Wang et al.   PLoS Genetics

The MIQE Guidelines: Minimum Information for Publication of Quantitative Real-Time PCR Experiments

(2009) S. A. Bustin et al.   CLINICAL CHEMISTRY

Human subtelomeric copy number variations

(2009) H. Riethman   CYTOGENETIC AND GENOME RESEARCH

Mechanisms of telomeric instability

(2009) D.M. Baird   CYTOGENETIC AND GENOME RESEARCH

Telomeric repeats far from the ends: mechanisms of origin and role in evolution

(2009) A. Ruiz-Herrera et al.   CYTOGENETIC AND GENOME RESEARCH

Real-time quantitative PCR assay for measurement of avian telomeres

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

Telomeres shorten while Tert expression increases during ageing of the short-lived fish Nothobranchius furzeri

(2009) Nils Hartmann et al.   MECHANISMS OF AGEING AND DEVELOPMENT

How to do successful gene expression analysis using real-time PCR

(2009) Stefaan Derveaux et al.   METHODS

Telomere length measurement by a novel monochrome multiplex quantitative PCR method

(2009) R. M. Cawthon   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Amplification efficiency: linking baseline and bias in the analysis of quantitative PCR data

(2009) J. M. Ruijter et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Telomere dynamics rather than age predict life expectancy in the wild

(2009) P. Bize et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Telomere shortening and survival in free-living corvids

(2009) H. M. Salomons et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Individual Blood Cell Telomere Attrition Rate Is Telomere Length Dependent

(2009) Katarina Nordfjäll et al.   PLoS Genetics

Leukocyte Telomere Dynamics: Longitudinal Findings Among Young Adults in the Bogalusa Heart Study

(2008) A. Aviv et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

A quantitative real-time PCR method for absolute telomere length

(2008) Nathan J. O'Callaghan et al.   BIOTECHNIQUES

Telomeres and Aging

(2008) Geraldine Aubert et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

TECHNICAL ADVANCES: New strategies for telomere-based age estimation

(2007) MARK F. HAUSSMANN et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources