Telomere length is highly heritable and independent of growth rate manipulated by temperature in field crickets
J. Boonekamp, R. Rodriguez-Munoz, P. Hopwood, E. Zuidersma, E. Mulder, A. Wilson, S. Verhulst, T. Tregenza
The paper investigates telomere length heritability and its relationship with growth rate in field crickets, finding high heritability but no effect of growth rate on telomere length.
bioRxiv · May 29, 2020Zoology