Diverse aging rates in ectothermic tetrapods provide insights for the evolution of aging and longevity

Analysis of longevity in Chordata identifies species with exceptional longevity among taxa and points to the evolution of longer lifespans

(2021) Caglar Berkel et al.   BIOGERONTOLOGY

No evidence of physiological declines with age in an extremely long-lived fish

(2021) Derek J. Sauer et al.   Scientific Reports

Genomic signatures of thermal adaptation are associated with clinal shifts of life history in a broadly distributed frog

(2021) Hugo Cayuela et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Thermal conditions predict intraspecific variation in senescence rate in frogs and toads

(2021) Hugo Cayuela et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Origins and evolution of extreme life span in Pacific Ocean rockfishes

(2021) Sree Rohit Raj Kolora et al.   SCIENCE

No evidence for the ‘rate‐of‐living’ theory across the tetrapod tree of life

(2020) Gavin Stark et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The relationship between genome size and metabolic rate in extant vertebrates

(2020) Jacob D. Gardner et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Sex differences in adult lifespan and aging rates of mortality across wild mammals

(2020) Jean-François Lemaître et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogenetic and spatial distribution of evolutionary diversification, isolation, and threat in turtles and crocodilians (non-avian archosauromorphs)

(2020) Timothy J. Colston et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The tuatara genome reveals ancient features of amniote evolution

(2020) Neil J. Gemmell et al.   NATURE

Climate change and ageing in ectotherms

(2020) Pablo Burraco et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Animal life history is shaped by the pace of life and the distribution of age-specific mortality and reproduction

(2019) Kevin Healy et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

What Have Long-Term Field Studies Taught Us About Population Dynamics?

(2019) Beth A. Reinke et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Joint estimation of growth and survival from mark‐recapture data to improve estimates of senescence in wild populations

(2019) Beth A. Reinke et al.   ECOLOGY

The untapped potential of reptile biodiversity for understanding how and why animals age

(2019) Luke A Hoekstra et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Slow life-history strategies are associated with negligible actuarial senescence in western Palaearctic salamanders

(2019) Hugo Cayuela et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Variation in actuarial senescence does not reflect life span variation across mammals

(2019) Guillaume Péron et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Assessing ageing patterns for comparative analyses of mortality curves: Going beyond the use of maximum longevity

(2019) Victor Ronget et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Inferring the mammal tree: Species-level sets of phylogenies for questions in ecology, evolution, and conservation

(2019) Nathan S. Upham et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Pace-of-life syndromes: a framework for the adaptive integration of behaviour, physiology and life history

(2018) Melanie Dammhahn et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Naked mole-rat mortality rates defy Gompertzian laws by not increasing with age

(2018) J Graham Ruby et al.   eLife

The interplay of past diversification and evolutionary isolation with present imperilment across the amphibian tree of life

(2018) Walter Jetz et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

OUP accepted manuscript

(2018)   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Cold and dark captivity: Drivers of amphibian longevity

(2018) Gavin Stark et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

High oxidative stress despite low energy metabolism and vice versa: Insights through temperature acclimation in an ectotherm

(2018) Stanisław Bury et al.   JOURNAL OF THERMAL BIOLOGY

Multilocus phylogeny and statistical biogeography clarify the evolutionary history of major lineages of turtles

(2017) Anieli G. Pereira et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Fully-sampled phylogenies of squamates reveal evolutionary patterns in threat status

(2016) João Filipe Riva Tonini et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Demographic responses to weather fluctuations are context dependent in a long-lived amphibian

(2016) Hugo Cayuela et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Decades of field data reveal that turtles senesce in the wild

(2016) Daniel A. Warner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Being cool: how body temperature influences ageing and longevity

(2015) Gerald Keil et al.   BIOGERONTOLOGY

Late bloomers and baby boomers: ecological drivers of longevity in squamates and the tuatara

(2014) Inon Scharf et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

To breed or not to breed: past reproductive status and environmental cues drive current breeding decisions in a long-lived amphibian

(2014) Hugo Cayuela et al.   OECOLOGIA

Species with a chemical defence, but not chemical offence, live longer

(2013) T. J. Hossie et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Diversity of ageing across the tree of life

(2013) Owen R. Jones et al.   NATURE

Polyandry Has No Detectable Mortality Cost in Female Mammals

(2013) Jean-François Lemaître et al.   PLoS One

Evidence for plasticity in the frequency of skipped breeding opportunities in common toads

(2013) Erin Muths et al.   POPULATION ECOLOGY

Senescence in natural populations of animals: Widespread evidence and its implications for bio-gerontology

(2012) Daniel H. Nussey et al.   AGEING RESEARCH REVIEWS

A comparative assessment of univariate longevity measures using zoological animal records

(2012) Jacob A. Moorad et al.   AGING CELL

The weight of nations: an estimation of adult human biomass

(2012) Sarah Catherine Walpole et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

The global diversity of birds in space and time

(2012) W. Jetz et al.   NATURE

BaSTA: an R package for Bayesian estimation of age-specific survival from incomplete mark-recapture/recovery data with covariates

(2012) Fernando Colchero et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The Axolotl Model for Regeneration and Aging Research: A Mini-Review

(2011) Catherine McCusker et al.   GERONTOLOGY

Aging in the Natural World: Comparative Data Reveal Similar Mortality Patterns Across Primates

(2011) A. M. Bronikowski et al.   SCIENCE

Life-history connections to rates of aging in terrestrial vertebrates

(2010) R. E. Ricklefs   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Age at the onset of senescence in birds and mammals is predicted by early-life performance

(2010) G. Peron et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits

(2009) J. P. DE MAGALHÃES et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Latitudinal variation in lifespan within species is explained by the metabolic theory of ecology

(2009) S. B. Munch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Simultaneous Inference in General Parametric Models

(2008) Torsten Hothorn et al.   BIOMETRICAL JOURNAL

Senescence rates are determined by ranking on the fast-slow life-history continuum

(2008) Owen R. Jones et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS