Born to be young? Prenatal thyroid hormones increase early-life telomere length in wild collared flycatchers



: Stier A, Hsu BY, Marciau C, Doligez B, Gustafsson L, Bize P, Ruuskanen S

Publisher: The Royal Society Publishing

: 2020

: Biology Letters

: Biology letters

: Biol Lett

: 20200364

: 16

: 11

: 4

: 1744-9561

: 1744-957X

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0364(external)

: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/Publication/51162836(external)


4 years of post-growth telomere shortening). These findings suggest that prenatal THs might have a role in setting the 'biological' age at birth, but raise questions about the nature of the evolutionary costs of prenatal exposure to high TH levels.

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