Older mothers produce offspring with longer telomeres: a longitudinal within-parent analysis
A. M. Brown, E. M. Wood, P. Capilla-Lasheras, X. A. Harrison, A. J. Young
The paper shows that older mothers produce offspring with longer telomeres, suggesting a transgenerational effect of parental age on telomere length in wild birds.
bioRxiv · Dec 16, 2020 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology