Data from: Within the genome, long telomeres are more informative than short telomeres with respect to fitness components in a long-lived seabird ...
Telomeres, DNA-protein structures at chromosome ends, shorten with age, and telomere length has been linked to age-related diseases and survival. In vitro studies revealed that the shortest telomeres trigger cell senescence, but whether the shortest telomeres are also the best biomarker of ageing is...
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ftdatacite:10.5061/dryad.k8r75 2024-02-04T10:04:50+01:00 Data from: Within the genome, long telomeres are more informative than short telomeres with respect to fitness components in a long-lived seabird ... Bauch, Christina Becker, Peter H. Verhulst, Simon 2013 https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.k8r75 https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.k8r75 en eng Dryad https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.12602 Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode cc0-1.0 selective disappearance life-history lifestyle Sterna hirundo Dataset dataset 2013 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.k8r7510.1111/mec.12602 2024-01-05T01:14:15Z Telomeres, DNA-protein structures at chromosome ends, shorten with age, and telomere length has been linked to age-related diseases and survival. In vitro studies revealed that the shortest telomeres trigger cell senescence, but whether the shortest telomeres are also the best biomarker of ageing is not known. We measured telomeres in erythrocytes of wild common terns Sterna hirundo using terminal restriction fragment analysis. This yields a distribution of telomere lengths for each sample, and we investigated how different telomere subpopulations (percentiles) varied in their relation to age and fitness proxies. Longer telomeres within a genome lost more base pairs with age and were better predictors of survival than shorter telomeres. Likewise, fitness proxies such as arrival date at the breeding grounds and reproductive success were best predicted by telomere length at the higher percentiles. Our finding that longer telomeres within a genome predict fitness components better than the shorter telomeres ... : BauchBeckerVerhulst_MolEcol_Long-telomeres-better-predict-fitness-proxiesData ... Dataset Sterna hirundo DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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Telomeres, DNA-protein structures at chromosome ends, shorten with age, and telomere length has been linked to age-related diseases and survival. In vitro studies revealed that the shortest telomeres trigger cell senescence, but whether the shortest telomeres are also the best biomarker of ageing is not known. We measured telomeres in erythrocytes of wild common terns Sterna hirundo using terminal restriction fragment analysis. This yields a distribution of telomere lengths for each sample, and we investigated how different telomere subpopulations (percentiles) varied in their relation to age and fitness proxies. Longer telomeres within a genome lost more base pairs with age and were better predictors of survival than shorter telomeres. Likewise, fitness proxies such as arrival date at the breeding grounds and reproductive success were best predicted by telomere length at the higher percentiles. Our finding that longer telomeres within a genome predict fitness components better than the shorter telomeres ... : BauchBeckerVerhulst_MolEcol_Long-telomeres-better-predict-fitness-proxiesData ... |
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Data from: Within the genome, long telomeres are more informative than short telomeres with respect to fitness components in a long-lived seabird ... |
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Data from: Within the genome, long telomeres are more informative than short telomeres with respect to fitness components in a long-lived seabird ... |
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Data from: Within the genome, long telomeres are more informative than short telomeres with respect to fitness components in a long-lived seabird ... |
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Data from: Within the genome, long telomeres are more informative than short telomeres with respect to fitness components in a long-lived seabird ... |
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Data from: Within the genome, long telomeres are more informative than short telomeres with respect to fitness components in a long-lived seabird ... |
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data from: within the genome, long telomeres are more informative than short telomeres with respect to fitness components in a long-lived seabird ... |
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