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

• Published in: Behavioral Ecology
• Main Authors: Foote, C. G., Daunt, F., Gonzalez-Solis, J., Nasir, L., Phillips, R. A., Monaghan, P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Giganteus; Giant Petrel; Giant Petrels; Macronectes giganteus
• Online Access: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/52412/; 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 tradeoffs in wild populations is extremely difficult. Recently, it has been suggested that telomeres, the ends of eukaryote chromosomes, might be useful in this context. How...