The idea that senescent cells are causally involved in aging has gained strong support from
findings that the removal of such cells alleviates many age‐related diseases and extends …

Telomere length (TL) has become a biomarker of increasing interest within ecology and
evolutionary biology, and has been found to predict subsequent survival in some recent …

Life history theory seeks to explain the evolution of the major features of life cycles by
analyzing the ecological factors that shape age-specific schedules of growth, reproduction …

Research programmes on oxidative stress and hormesis are wide ranging. Biomedical and
toxicological sciences have traditionally centralised such research, but in the last years we …

Telomeres with G-rich repetitive DNA and particular proteins as special heterochromatin
structures at the termini of eukaryotic chromosomes are tightly maintained to safeguard …

Most organisms, including ourselves, are exposed to environmental stressors at various
points during life, and responses to such stressors have been optimised by evolution to give …

Aging is a biological process that affects most cells, organisms and species. Telomeres have
been postulated as a universal biological clock that shortens in parallel with aging in cells …

Following the discoveries of telomeres and of their implications in terms of health and
ageing, there has been a growing interest into the study of telomere dynamics in wild …

Telomeres are repetitive DNA sequences at the ends of eukaryote chromosomes. Telomere
loss limits the number of times cells can divide and is intimately involved in cell loss and …

Evolutionary biology and biomedicine have seen a surge of recent interest in the possibility
that telomeres play a role in life-history trade-offs and ageing. Here, I evaluate alternative …