Large mammal telomere length variation across ecoregions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Telomere length provides a physiological proxy for accumulated stress in animals. While there is a growing consensus over how telomere dynamics and their patterns are linked to life history variation and individual experience, knowledge on the impact of exposure to different stressors at a large spatial scale on telomere length is still lacking. How exposure to different stressors at a regional scale interacts with individual differences in life history is also poorly understood. To better understand large-scale regional influences, we investigated telomere length variation in moose (Alces alces) distributed across three ecoregions. We analyzed 153 samples of 106 moose representing moose of both sexes and range of ages to measure relative telomere lengths (RTL) in white

SUBMITTER: Fohringer C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9426267 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature