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SUBMITTER: Watson RL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5484296 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Watson Rebecca L RL Bird Ellen J EJ Underwood Sarah S Wilbourn Rachael V RV Fairlie Jennifer J Watt Kathryn K Salvo-Chirnside Eliane E Pilkington Jill G JG Pemberton Josephine M JM McNeilly Tom N TN Froy Hannah H Nussey Daniel H DH
Molecular ecology 20170127 12
Mounting evidence suggests that average telomere length reflects previous stress and predicts subsequent survival across vertebrate species. In humans, leucocyte telomere length (LTL) is consistently shorter during adulthood in males than in females, although the causes of this sex difference and its generality to other mammals remain unknown. Here, we measured LTL in a cross-sectional sample of free-living Soay sheep and found shorter telomeres in males than in females in later adulthood (>3 ye ...[more]