Selective disappearance of great tits with short telomeres in urban areas

Transcriptome analysis of a wild bird reveals physiological responses to the urban environment

(2017) Hannah Watson et al.   Scientific Reports

Urban environment shortens telomere length in nestling great tits,Parus major

(2016) P. Salmón et al.   Biology Letters

Curvilinear telomere length dynamics in a squamate reptile

(2016) Beata Ujvari et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Interactions between parental traits, environmental harshness and growth rate in determining telomere length in wild juvenile salmon

(2016) D. McLennan et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Fatty acid profiles of great tit (Parus major) eggs differ between urban and rural habitats, but not between coniferous and deciduous forests

(2016) Alejandra Toledo et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Negative impact of urban habitat on immunity in the great tit Parus major

(2016) Juliette Bailly et al.   OECOLOGIA

Human influences on evolution, and the ecological and societal consequences

(2016) Andrew P. Hendry et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Parallel telomere shortening in multiple body tissues owing to malaria infection

(2016) Muhammad Asghar et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Fatty acid profiles of great tit (Parus major) eggs differ between urban and rural habitats, but not between coniferous and deciduous forests

(2016) Alejandra Toledo et al.   Science of Nature

Questioning causal involvement of telomeres in aging

(2015) Mirre J.P. Simons   AGEING RESEARCH REVIEWS

Lifelong leukocyte telomere dynamics and survival in a free-living mammal

(2015) Jennifer Fairlie et al.   AGING CELL

Telomere dynamics may link stress exposure and ageing across generations

(2015) Mark F. Haussmann et al.   Biology Letters

Traffic noise exposure affects telomere length in nestling house sparrows

(2015) Alizée Meillère et al.   Biology Letters

Characterizing avian survival along a rural-to-urban land use gradient

(2015) Brian S. Evans et al.   ECOLOGY

Telomeres shorten more slowly in slow-aging wild animals than in fast-aging ones

(2015) Ben Dantzer et al.   EXPERIMENTAL GERONTOLOGY

Variation in early-life telomere dynamics in a long-lived bird: links to environmental conditions and survival

(2015) H. Watson et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Hidden costs of infection: Chronic malaria accelerates telomere degradation and senescence in wild birds

(2015) M. Asghar et al.   SCIENCE

Influence of Urbanization on Body Size, Condition, and Physiology in an Urban Exploiter: A Multi-Component Approach

(2015) Alizée Meillère et al.   PLoS One

Quantifying the urban gradient: A practical method for broad measurements

(2014) Gábor Seress et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Stress exposure in early post-natal life reduces telomere length: an experimental demonstration in a long-lived seabird

(2014) K. A. Herborn et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Nestling telomere shortening, but not telomere length, reflects developmental stress and predicts survival in wild birds

(2014) J. J. Boonekamp et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Measuring telomere length and telomere dynamics in evolutionary biology and ecology

(2014) Daniel H. Nussey et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Selection based on the size of the black tie of the great tit may be reversed in urban habitats

(2014) Juan Carlos Senar et al.   Ecology and Evolution

GAPDH as a Control Gene to Estimate Genome Copy Number in Great Tits, with Cross-Amplification in Blue Tits

(2013) Els Atema et al.   ARDEA

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

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

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

Artificial light at night advances avian reproductive physiology

(2013) D. Dominoni et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Telomere dynamics in a long-lived bird, the barnacle goose

(2012) Angela Pauliny et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Hormones in the city: Endocrine ecology of urban birds

(2012) Frances Bonier   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Telomere length and dynamics predict mortality in a wild longitudinal study

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

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

Diet, nutrition and telomere length

(2011) Ligi Paul   JOURNAL OF NUTRITIONAL BIOCHEMISTRY

Sexual differences in telomere selection in the wild

(2011) MATS OLSSON et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

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

Interspecific variation in fear responses predicts urbanization in birds

(2010) A. P. Moller   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Quantifying avian nest survival along an urbanization gradient using citizen- and scientist-generated data

(2010) Thomas B. Ryder et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

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(2010)   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Species-specific Survival and Relative Habitat Use in an Urban Landscape during the Postfledging Period

(2009) Kara A. Whittaker et al.   AUK

A national scale inventory of resource provision for biodiversity within domestic gardens

(2009) Zoe G. Davies et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

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

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

Real-time quantitative PCR assay for measurement of avian telomeres

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

Effects of urbanisation on disease prevalence and age structure in blackbirdTurdus merulapopulations

(2009) Karl L. Evans et al.   OIKOS

A simple method for distinguishing within- versus between-subject effects using mixed models

(2008) Martijn van de Pol et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Food for thought: supplementary feeding as a driver of ecological change in avian populations

(2008) Gillian N Robb et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Corticosterone and corticosteroid binding globulin in birds: Relation to urbanization in a desert city

(2008) H. Bobby Fokidis et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

Survival of adult Great Tits Parus major in relation to sex and habitat; a comparison of urban and rural populations

(2008) PEETER HORAK et al.   IBIS

Feeding birds in our towns and cities: a global research opportunity

(2008) Darryl N. Jones et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY