Senescence in the wild: Insights from a long-term study on Seychelles warblers

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 71, Issue , 2015, Pages 69-79

  Hammers, Martijn ^a   Kingma, Sjouke A ^a   Bebbington, Kat ^b   van de Crommenacker, Janske ^a   Spurgin, Lewis G ^b   Richardson, David S ^b,c   Burke, Terry ^d   Dugdale, Hannah L ^a,d   Komdeur, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c NATURE SEYCHELLES   (Seychelles)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Cooperative breeding; Immunosenescence; Oxidative stress; Senescence; Telomeres

Indexed keywords

REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ACROCEPHALUS SECHELLENSIS; AGING; BIRD; BODY SIZE; BREEDING; DNA DAMAGE; EARLY LIFE STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOOD AVAILABILITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; REVIEW; SENESCENCE; SHORT TERM SURVIVAL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TELOMERE SHORTENING; WILDLIFE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; IMMUNOSENESCENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD; WILD ANIMAL;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; IMMUNOSENESCENCE; MODELS, ANIMAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REPRODUCTION; SONGBIRDS; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

EID: 84947021419     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: 18736815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2015.08.019     Document Type: Review

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