Assortative pairing by telomere length in king penguins and relationships with breeding success
International audience Telomeres are non-coding genetic repeats protecting the ends of linear chromosomes. Long telomeres are often associated with high individual survival, and inter-individual variation in telomere length has recently been proposed as a proxy for individual quality. Therefore, one...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:10670/1.ojmz0t 2023-05-15T17:03:56+02:00 Assortative pairing by telomere length in king penguins and relationships with breeding success Schull, Quentin Viblanc, Vincent Dobson, F. Stephen Robin, Jean-Patrice Zahn, Sandrine Cristofari, Robin, Bize, Pierre Criscuolo, François Département Ecologie, Physiologie et Ethologie (DEPE-IPHC) Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC) Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Department of Zoology Auburn University (AU) University of Aberdeen - , Aberdeen, Royaume Uni. Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences 2018-01-26 https://doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2017-0094 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01698370/file/Schull%20et%20al.%202017_CJZ_pre-proof.pdf https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01698370 en eng HAL CCSD NRC Research Press hal-01698370 doi:10.1139/cjz-2017-0094 10670/1.ojmz0t https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01698370/file/Schull%20et%20al.%202017_CJZ_pre-proof.pdf https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01698370 Hyper Article en Ligne - Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société ISSN: 0008-4301 EISSN: 1480-3283 Canadian Journal of Zoology Canadian Journal of Zoology, NRC Research Press, 2018, ⟨10.1139/cjz-2017-0094⟩ sexual selection assortative mating Penguins Taxon telomere Discipline Reproduction envir scipo Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2018 fttriple https://doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2017-0094 2023-01-22T17:10:11Z International audience Telomeres are non-coding genetic repeats protecting the ends of linear chromosomes. Long telomeres are often associated with high individual survival, and inter-individual variation in telomere length has recently been proposed as a proxy for individual quality. Therefore, one might expect individuals of either sex with long telomeres to be of higher intrinsic quality and to be preferred in the context of mate choice. Thus, in sexually monomorphic species where individuals discriminate mates on the basis of signals of intrinsic quality, mate choice should lead to assortative pairing by telomere length, and it should be associated with breeding performance. We tested these two predictions in the king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus, Miller, 1778), a sexually monomorphic seabird. Over 3 years of study and 73 penguin pairs under contrasting environmental conditions, we found strong assortative pairing by telomere length. Interestingly, only female telomere length was positively associated to chick survival up to fledging, and this relationship was only apparent when foraging conditions at sea were average. The positive link between telomere length and breeding success confirmed that telomere length is somehow related to individual biological state at a given time. The proximate mechanisms by which birds assess individual state related to telomere length remains to be discovered. Article in Journal/Newspaper King Penguins Unknown Canadian Journal of Zoology 96 6 639 647 |
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International audience Telomeres are non-coding genetic repeats protecting the ends of linear chromosomes. Long telomeres are often associated with high individual survival, and inter-individual variation in telomere length has recently been proposed as a proxy for individual quality. Therefore, one might expect individuals of either sex with long telomeres to be of higher intrinsic quality and to be preferred in the context of mate choice. Thus, in sexually monomorphic species where individuals discriminate mates on the basis of signals of intrinsic quality, mate choice should lead to assortative pairing by telomere length, and it should be associated with breeding performance. We tested these two predictions in the king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus, Miller, 1778), a sexually monomorphic seabird. Over 3 years of study and 73 penguin pairs under contrasting environmental conditions, we found strong assortative pairing by telomere length. Interestingly, only female telomere length was positively associated to chick survival up to fledging, and this relationship was only apparent when foraging conditions at sea were average. The positive link between telomere length and breeding success confirmed that telomere length is somehow related to individual biological state at a given time. The proximate mechanisms by which birds assess individual state related to telomere length remains to be discovered. |
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Département Ecologie, Physiologie et Ethologie (DEPE-IPHC) Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC) Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Department of Zoology Auburn University (AU) University of Aberdeen - , Aberdeen, Royaume Uni. Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences |
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Schull, Quentin Viblanc, Vincent Dobson, F. Stephen Robin, Jean-Patrice Zahn, Sandrine Cristofari, Robin, Bize, Pierre Criscuolo, François |
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Schull, Quentin Viblanc, Vincent Dobson, F. Stephen Robin, Jean-Patrice Zahn, Sandrine Cristofari, Robin, Bize, Pierre Criscuolo, François |
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Assortative pairing by telomere length in king penguins and relationships with breeding success |
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Assortative pairing by telomere length in king penguins and relationships with breeding success |
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Assortative pairing by telomere length in king penguins and relationships with breeding success |
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Assortative pairing by telomere length in king penguins and relationships with breeding success |
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Assortative pairing by telomere length in king penguins and relationships with breeding success |
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assortative pairing by telomere length in king penguins and relationships with breeding success |
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Hyper Article en Ligne - Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société ISSN: 0008-4301 EISSN: 1480-3283 Canadian Journal of Zoology Canadian Journal of Zoology, NRC Research Press, 2018, ⟨10.1139/cjz-2017-0094⟩ |
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