Foster rather than biological parental telomere length predicts offspring survival and telomere length in king penguins

• Published in: Molecular Ecology
• Main Authors: Viblanc, Vincent A., Schull, Quentin, Stier, Antoine, Durand, Laureline, Lefol, Emilie, Robin, Jean-Patrice, Zahn, Sandrine, Bize, Pierre, Criscuolo, François
• Other Authors: University of Aberdeen.Biological Sciences
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: telomere; growth; gene and early life environmental effects; reproduction investment; penguins; PATTERNS; CHICKS; MODEL; INVESTMENT; DYNAMICS; INDIVIDUAL QUALITY; STRESS; AGE; LIFE; QH301 Biology; Genetics; Ecology; Evolution; Behavior and Systematics; Supplementary Data; QH301; King Penguins
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/2164/16704; https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15485; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85087178676&partnerID=8YFLogxK

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We are grateful to the field assistants who helped us with data collection in 2012-2013. This research was supported by the French Polar Research Institute (IPEV; program 119 ECONERGY), by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), by an International Emerging Action Grant (IEA n°203036) from the CNRS, and by the AXA Research Fund (post-doctoral fellowship to VA Viblanc). We are grateful to S Rogers and 5 anonymous reviewers for constructive and useful comments on previous drafts of the paper. DATA ACCESSIBILITY The data associated with this manuscript are available online at figshare doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.12249902 (Viblanc et al. 2020). Peer reviewed