Telomere length (TL) has become a biomarker of increasing interest within ecology and
evolutionary biology, and has been found to predict subsequent survival in some recent avian …

Biomarkers of aging are essential to predict mortality and aging‐related diseases. Paradoxically,
age itself imposes a limitation on the use of known biomarkers of aging because their …

Developmental stressors often have long-term fitness consequences, but linking offspring
traits to fitness prospects has remained a challenge. Telomere length predicts mortality in adult …

Oxidative stress shortens telomeres in cell culture, but whether oxidative stress explains
variation in telomere shortening in vivo at physiological oxidative stress levels is not well known. …

Optimality theories of ageing predict that the balance between reproductive effort and
somatic maintenance determines the rate of ageing. Laboratory studies find that increased …

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Food and sex often go hand in hand because of the nutritional cost of reproduction. For
Drosophila melanogaster females, this relationship is especially intimate because their offspring …

Food availability modulates survival in interaction with (for example) competition, disease
and predators, but to what extent food availability in natural populations affects survival …

Telomere length (TL) predicts health and survival across taxa. Variation in TL between
individuals is thought to be largely of genetic origin, but telomere inheritance is unusual, because …

Telomere length and telomere shortening predict survival in many organisms. This raises the
question of the contribution of genetic and environmental effects to variation in these traits, …