Individual state and survival prospects: age, sex, and telomere length in a long-lived seabird

• Published in: Behavioral Ecology
• Main Authors: Foote, Christopher G., Daunt, Francis, González-Solís, Jacob, Nasir, Lubna, Phillips, Richard A., Monaghan, Pat
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2010
• Subjects: Research Article; Giganteus; Giant Petrel; Giant Petrels; Macronectes giganteus
• Online Access: http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/arq178v1; https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arq178

Identifying markers that are indicative of individual state, related to fitness, and which could be used to study life-history trade-offs in wild populations is extremely difficult. Recently, it has been suggested that telomeres, the ends of eukaryote chromosomes, might be useful in this context. Ho...