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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Short- and long-term costs of reproduction revealed by telomere dynamics in wild greater horseshoe bats.

Megan L Power, Roger D Ransome, Luke Romaine, Gareth Jones, Emma C Teeling

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Megan L PowerSchool of Biology and Environmental Science, Science Centre East, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin D04 V1W8, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0001-7402-3254
Roger D RansomeSchool of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TQ, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-4143-8186
Luke RomaineSchool of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TQ, United Kingdom.
Gareth Jones *School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TQ, United Kingdom.
Emma C Teeling *School of Biology and Environmental Science, Science Centre East, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin D04 V1W8, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0002-3309-1346

Funding

EC | ERC | HORIZON EUROPE European Research Council (ERC) 101118919Irish Research Council (IrishResearch) GOIPG/2017/18)Irish Research Council (IrishResearch) IRCLA/2017/58Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) 19/FFP/6790
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Life-history trade-offs between reproduction and survival are well documented, yet the biological mechanisms underlying costs remain unclear. Telomere length (TL) is a potential biomarker for such costs, although its association with reproductive efforts is mixed. Bats, particularly the long-lived greater horseshoe bat (

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ChiropteraReproductionTelomereTelomere HomeostasisAnimalsBayes TheoremFemaleLongevityTelomere Shorteningage at first reproductionlactationreproduction costsselective disappearancetelomeres

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PMID41325541
PMCPMC12718387

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