Pale and dark morphs of tawny owls show different patterns of telomere dynamics in relation to disease status

Parallel telomere shortening in multiple body tissues owing to malaria infection

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Questioning causal involvement of telomeres in aging

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

Is the denser contour feather structure in pale grey than in pheomelanic brown tawny owls Strix aluco an adaptation to cold environments?

(2015) Katja Koskenpato et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Ageing and reproduction: antioxidant supplementation alleviates telomere loss in wild birds

(2015) E. P. Badás et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Morph-specific genetic and environmental variation in innate and acquired immune response in a color polymorphic raptor

(2015) Laura Gangoso et al.   OECOLOGIA

Early-Life Telomere Dynamics Differ between the Sexes and Predict Growth in the Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica)

(2015) Marco Parolini et al.   PLoS One

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

(2015) M. Asghar et al.   SCIENCE

Maternal and genetic factors determine early life telomere length

(2014) M. Asghar 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

Melanin-Specific Life-History Strategies

(2013) Guillaume Emaresi et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Brown tawny owls moult more flight feathers than grey ones

(2013) Patrik Karell et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Pleiotropy in the melanocortin system: expression levels of this system are associated with melanogenesis and pigmentation in the tawny owl (Strix aluco)

(2013) Guillaume Emaresi et al.   MOLECULAR 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

Ecology and conservation biology of avian malaria

(2012) Dennis A. LaPointe et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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

(2012) MUHAMMAD ASGHAR et al.   PARASITOLOGY

A general and simple method for obtainingR2from generalized linear mixed-effects models

(2012) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Are chronic avian haemosporidian infections costly in wild birds?

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

Blood parasites mediate morph-specific maintenance costs in a colour polymorphic wild bird

(2011) P. KARELL et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Eumelanin- and pheomelanin-based colour advertise resistance to oxidative stress in opposite ways

(2011) A. ROULIN et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Telomere dynamics in relation to early growth conditions in the wild in the lesser black-backed gull

(2011) C. G. Foote et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods

(2011) K. Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Telomere dysfunction induces metabolic and mitochondrial compromise

(2011) Ergün Sahin et al.   NATURE

Parasitic infection and oxidative status are associated and vary with breeding activity in the Seychelles warbler

(2011) J. van de Crommenacker et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Climate change drives microevolution in a wild bird

(2011) Patrik Karell et al.   Nature Communications

Telomeres and Telomerase: The Means to the End (Nobel Lecture)

(2010) Elizabeth H. Blackburn   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The blood parasite Haemoproteus reduces survival in a wild bird: a medication experiment

(2010) J. M.-d. l. Puente et al.   Biology Letters

Oxidative status and telomere length in a long-lived bird facing a costly reproductive event

(2010) Michaël Beaulieu et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Fitness consequences of immune responses: strengthening the empirical framework for ecoimmunology

(2010) Andrea L. Graham et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The use of telomere length in ecology and evolutionary biology

(2010) T Horn et al.   HEREDITY

Chronic malaria infections increase family inequalities and reduce parental fitness: experimental evidence from a wild bird population

(2010) S. C. L. KNOWLES et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Pheomelanin‐Based Coloration and the Ability to Cope with Variation in Food Supply and Parasitism

(2009) Romain Piault et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Population dynamics in a cyclic environment: consequences of cyclic food abundance on tawny owl reproduction and survival

(2009) Patrik Karell et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Strength and cost of an induced immune response are associated with a heritable melanin-based colour trait in female tawny owls

(2009) Julien Gasparini 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

MalAvi: a public database of malaria parasites and related haemosporidians in avian hosts based on mitochondrial cytochromeblineages

(2009) STAFFAN BENSCH et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

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

Haemosporidian Blood Parasites in European Birds of Prey and Owls

(2008) O. Krone et al.   JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY

Decomposing health: tolerance and resistance to parasites in animals

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

Pleiotropy in the melanocortin system, coloration and behavioural syndromes

(2008) A DUCREST et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION