Telomere length reveals cumulative individual and transgenerational inbreeding effects in a passerine bird

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 2949-2960

  Bebbington, Kat ^a   Spurgin, Lewis G ^a,b   Fairfield, Eleanor A ^a   Dugdale, Hannah L ^c,d   Komdeur, Jan ^d   Burke, Terry ^e   Richardson, David S ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^f NATURE SEYCHELLES   (Seychelles)

Author keywords

heterozygote advantage; inbreeding; lifetime fitness; Seychelles warbler; telomere; trans generational effects

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; GENETICS; HOMOZYGOTE; INBREEDING; MALE; POPULATION GENETICS; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SEYCHELLES; SONGBIRD; TELOMERE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETICS, POPULATION; HOMOZYGOTE; INBREEDING; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; SEYCHELLES; SONGBIRDS; TELOMERE;

EID: 85027939758     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.13670     Document Type: Article

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