Telomeres as biomarkers of cost and quality in a wild vertebrate population

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• 2023

  A major myna problem; invasive predator removal benefits female survival and population growth of a translocated island endemic

  Brown, T. J., Hellicar, M., Accouche, W., van der Woude, J., Dugdale, H., Komdeur, J. & Richardson, D. S., Oct 2023, In: Global Ecology and Conservation. 46, e02584.

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• Testing the environmental buffering hypothesis of cooperative breeding in the Seychelles warbler

  Borger, M. J., Richardson, D. S., Dugdale, H., Burke, T. & Komdeur, J., Oct 2023, In: acta ethologica. 26, 3, p. 211-224 14 p.

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• 2022

  Causes and consequences of telomere lengthening in a wild vertebrate population

  Brown, T. J., Spurgin, L. G., Dugdale, H. L., Komdeur, J., Burke, T. & Richardson, D. S., Dec 2022, In: Molecular Ecology. 31, 23, p. 5933-5945 13 p.

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• Population level consequences of facultatively cooperative behaviour in a stochastic environment

  Busana, M., Childs, D. Z., Burke, T. A., Komdeur, J., Richardson, D. S. & Dugdale, H. L., Jan 2022, In: Journal of Animal Ecology. 91, 1, p. 224-240 17 p.

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• Sex‐dependent effects of parental age on offspring fitness in a cooperatively breeding bird

  Sparks, A. M., Hammers, M., Komdeur, J., Burke, T., Richardson, D. S. & Dugdale, H. L., 1 Dec 2022, In: Evolution Letters. 6, 6, p. 438-449 12 p.

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• Seychelles warblers with silver spoons: Juvenile body mass is a lifelong predictor of annual survival, but not annual reproduction or senescence

  Brown, T. J., Dugdale, H. L., Hammers, M., Komdeur, J. & Richardson, D. S., Jul 2022, In: Ecology and Evolution. 12, 7, e9049.

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• Telomere heritability and parental age at conception effects in a wild avian population

  Sparks, A. M., Spurgin, L. G., van der Velde, M., Fairfield, E. A., Komdeur, J., Burke, T., Richardson, D. S. & Dugdale, H. L., Dec 2022, In: Molecular Ecology. 31, 23, p. 6324-6338 15 p.

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• The contribution of extra-pair paternity to the variation in lifetime and age-specific male reproductive success in a socially monogamous species

  Raj Pant, S., Versteegh, M. A., Hammers, M., Burke, T., Dugdale, H. L., Richardson, D. S. & Komdeur, J., May 2022, In: Evolution. 76, 5, p. 915-930 16 p.

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• 2021

  Contemporary evolution of the innate immune receptor gene TLR3 in an isolated vertebrate population

  Davies, C. S., Taylor, M. I., Hammers, M., Burke, T., Komdeur, J., Dugdale, H. L. & Richardson, D. S., Jun 2021, In: Molecular Ecology. 30, 11, p. 2528-2542 15 p.

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• Helpers compensate for age‐related declines in parental care and offspring survival in a cooperatively breeding bird

  Hammers, M., Kingma, S. A., van Boheemen, L. A., Sparks, A. M., Burke, T., Dugdale, H. L., Richardson, D. S. & Komdeur, J., 1 Apr 2021, In: Evolution Letters. 5, 2, p. 143-153 11 p.

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• Hematocrit, age, and survival in a wild vertebrate population

  Brown, T. J., Hammers, M., Taylor, M., Dugdale, H. L., Komdeur, J. & Richardson, D. S., Jan 2021, In: Ecology and Evolution. 11, 1, p. 214-226 13 p.

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• 2019

  Breeders that receive help age more slowly in a cooperatively breeding bird

  Hammers, M., Kingma, S., Spurgin, L., Bebbington, K., Dugdale, H., Burke, T., Komdeur, J. & Richardson, D. S., 21 Mar 2019, In: Nature Communications. 10, 1301.

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• Compensatory and additive helper effects in the cooperatively breeding Seychelles warbler (Acrocephalus sechellensis)

  Van Boheemen, L. A., Hammers, M., Kingma, S., Richardson, D., Burke, T., Komdeur, J. & Dugdale, H., Mar 2019, In: Ecology and Evolution. 9, 5, p. 2986-2995

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• 2018

  Joint care can outweigh costs of nonkin competition in communal breeders

  Bebbington, K., Fairfield, E. A., Spurgin, L. G., Kingma, S. A., Dugdale, H., Komdeur, J. & Richardson, D. S., 13 Jan 2018, In: Behavioral Ecology. 29, 1, p. 169–178 10 p.

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• Spatio-temporal variation in lifelong telomere dynamics in a long-term ecological study

  Spurgin, L. G., Bebbington, K., Fairfield, E. A., Hammers, M., Komdeur, J., Burke, T., Dugdale, H. L. & Richardson, D. S., Jan 2018, In: Journal of Animal Ecology. 87, 1, p. 187–198 12 p.

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• Subordinate females in the cooperatively breeding Seychelles warbler obtain direct benefits by joining unrelated groups

  Groenewoud, F., Kingma, S. A., Hammers, M., Dugdale, H. L., Burke, T., Richardson, D. S. & Komdeur, J., Sep 2018, In: Journal of Animal Ecology. 87, 5, p. 1251-1263 13 p.

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• 2017

  Consequences of sibling rivalry vary across life in a passerine bird

  Bebbington, K., Kingma, S. A., Fairfield, E. A., Spurgin, L. G., Komdeur, J. & Richardson, D. S., 1 Mar 2017, In: Behavioral Ecology. 28, 2, p. 407-418

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• Kinship and familiarity mitigate costs of social conflict between Seychelles warbler neighbors

  Bebbington, K., Kingma, S., Fairfield, E. A., Dugdale, H. L., Komdeur, J., Spurgin, L. G. & Richardson, D. S., 24 Oct 2017, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). 114, 43, p. E9036–E9045 10 p.

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• 2016

  Age-specific haemosporidian infection dynamics and survival in Seychelles warblers

  Hammers, M., Komdeur, J., Kingma, S., Hutchings, K., Fairfield, E., Gilroy, D. & Richardson, D., 19 Jul 2016, In: Scientific Reports. 6, 29720.

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• Avian β-defensin variation in bottlenecked populations: the Seychelles warbler and other congeners

  Gilroy, D., van Oosterhout, C., Komdeur, J. & Richardson, D. S., Jun 2016, In: Conservation Genetics. 17, 3, p. 661-674 14 p.

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• Delayed dispersal and the cost and benefits of different routes to independent breeding in a cooperative breeding bird

  Kingma, S. A., Bebbington, K., Hammers, M., Richardson, D. S. & Komdeur, J., Nov 2016, In: Evolution. 70, 11, p. 2595–2610

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• Social pairing of Seychelles warblers under reduced constraints: MHC, neutral heterozygosity, and age

  Wright, D. J., Brouwer, L., Mannarelli, M-E., Burke, T., Komdeur, J. & Richardson, D. S., 23 Jan 2016, In: Behavioral Ecology. 27, 1, p. 295-303 9 p.

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

  Bebbington, K., Spurgin, L., Fairfield, E., Dugdale, H. L., Komdeur, J., Burke, T. & Richardson, D. S., Jun 2016, In: Molecular Ecology. 25, 12, p. 2949–2960 12 p.

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• The cost of prospecting for dispersal opportunities in a social bird

  Kingma, S. A., Komdeur, J., Hammers, M. & Richardson, D. S., 12 Jun 2016, In: Biology Letters. 12, 6, 20160316.

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• The impact of conservation-driven translocations on blood parasite prevalence in the Seychelles warbler

  Fairfield, E. A., Hutchings, K., Gilroy, D. L., Kingma, S. A., Burke, T., Komdeur, J. & Richardson, D. S., 13 Jul 2016, In: Scientific Reports. 6, 29596.

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• 2014

  Museum DNA reveals the demographic history of the endangered Seychelles warbler

  Spurgin, L., Wright, D., Van der Velde, M., Collar, N., Komdeur, J., Burke, T. & Richardson, D., 1 Nov 2014, In: Evolutionary Applications. 7, 9, p. 1134–1143

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• The impact of translocations on neutral and functional genetic diversity within and among populations of the Seychelles warbler

  Wright, D. J., Spurgin, L. G., Collar, N. J., Komdeur, J., Burke, T. & Richardson, D. S., May 2014, In: Molecular Ecology. 23, 9, p. 2165-2177 13 p.

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