Adult telomere length is positively correlated with survival and
lifetime reproductive success in a wild passerine
Running title: Telomere length is correlated with fitness
Heung Ying Janet Chik1,2, Maria-Elena
Mannarelli3,4, Natalie dos
Remedios3,5, Mirre J. P. Simons3,
Terry Burke3, Julia Schroeder6*,
Hannah L. Dugdale1*
*H. L. Dugdale and J. Schroeder share last authorship
1Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences,
University of Groningen, Groningen 9747AG, the Netherlands.
2School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW
2109, Australia.
3Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, School of
Biosciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom.
4School of Biological Sciences, University of East
Anglia, Norfolk NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom.
5School of Social Sciences, University of Auckland,
Auckland 1010, New Zealand.
6Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London
Silwood Park, Ascot SL5 7PY, United Kingdom.
Corresponding authors: Heung Ying Janet Chik
(chikhyjanet@gmail.com),
Hannah L. Dugdale
(h.l.dugdale@rug.nl)