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Telomeres reveal costs of inbreeding in house sparrows.

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Revealing the genetic architecture and heritability of early-life telomere length in wild house sparrows in Molecular Ecology by Pepke et al. from CBD House Sparrow Project, CBD at NTNU and @IBAHCM onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…

Read our new issue, online today! Cover: The #housesparrow provides a model species for a study of dispersal dynamics in free-living bird populations, with most individuals being sedentary and a minority of juveniles recruiting as immigrants annually. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652656/2…

New paper in Molecular Ecology from our artificial body size selection experiment on wild house sparrows documenting effects on telomere length by CBD House Sparrow Project, CBD at NTNU and @IBAHCM: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…

The project runs smoothly!! The Norwegian sparrows produce & scrounge with QR-codes on their backs & readers below their feet. But no taste for music (sound on) @RoriWH Corne de Groot CBD House Sparrow Project CBD at NTNU Alastair Wilson Julie Morand-Ferron @DamienFarine DFG public | @[email protected] EES@LMU

!!The amazing #sparrow team finished data collection!! 👌 1180 social foraging trials, 168 sparrows assayed, each in 10 distinct social environments 😵‍💫 Martin Køber Guldvik Tuva Zeiner-Henriksen @RoriWH CBD at NTNU Universität München EES@LMU CBD House Sparrow Project DFG public | @[email protected]

"Inbreeding is associated with shorter early-life telomere length in a wild passerine" in Conservation Genetics by Pepke et al. CBD House Sparrow Project CBD at NTNU: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

The first captured House Sparrow of the season🦆🪶🥳

The views of fieldwork..☀️⛰️ CBD House Sparrow Project

Early-life telomere length is shaped by growth, weather, population density, and short telomeres may be associated with a fast pace-of-life in house sparrows. New paper in Ecology and Evolution by Pepke et al. from CBD House Sparrow Project CBD at NTNU onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

Early-life telomere dynamics in house sparrows by CBD House Sparrow Project #ESEB2022

Myranda Murray presenting #ESEB2022: "Male indirect genetic effects on lay date: the role of social plasticity in evolutionary rescue" ESEB CBD House Sparrow Project CBD at NTNU

Autumn fieldwork with CBD House Sparrow Project in Northern Norway: Who survived fledging and who are the dispersers 🐦?

New story on the #AvianHybrids blog! Inbred House Sparrow nestlings have shorter telomeres avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2023/01/11/inb… Based on the Conservation Genetics paper by Michael L. Pepke et al. | #ornithology

So fun being back in the field, now on house sparrows in Åfjord, to help with some really cool testing of producer-scrounger behaviour. Also had the pleasure of meeting this guy (?), which is still going on since we captured it last year! CdeGroot @RoriWijnhorst

New paper out in Journal of Evolutionary Biology, on genetic variation and covariation in BMR and body mass! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/je…

24 years of blood sampling house sparrows shows how individual telomere biology is highly dynamic and influenced by both genetic and environmental variation under natural conditions. 🐦🧬📢 New paper in Scientific Reports by CBD House Sparrow Project CBD at NTNU nature.com/articles/s4159…

Summarizing key discoveries on telomere dynamics in our house sparrows:

Congratulations to biology professor Bernt-Erik Sæther with ERC Advanced Grant NTNU @AnneBorgNTNU European Research Council (ERC) ERC NCP Norway Mari Sundli Tveit norwegianscitechnews.com/2023/03/presti…