FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Lizards from warm and declining populations are born with extremely short telomeres BT AF Dupoué, Andreaz Blaimont, Pauline Angelier, Frédéric Ribout, Cécile Rozen-Rechels, David Richard, Murielle Miles, Donald de Villemereuil, Pierre Rutschmann, Alexis Badiane, Arnaud Aubret, Fabien Lourdais, Olivier Meylan, Sandrine Cote, Julien Clobert, Jean Le gallard, Jean-François AS 1:1;2:2,3;3:4;4:4;5:5;6:6;7:7;8:8;9:9;10:5;11:6,10;12:4;13:5;14:11;15:6;16:5,12; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:;9:;10:;11:;12:;13:;14:;15:;16:; C1 Laboratoire des sciences de l’environnement marin, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Universite Bretagne Occidentale, Institut de recherche pour le developpement, Institut Francais de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer, UMR 6539, Plouzane, 29280, France Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA Department of Biology, Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648, USA Centre d’Etudes Biologiques de Chize, Universite de La Rochelle, CNRS, UMR 7372, Beauvoir sur Niort, 79360, France Institut d’ecologie et des sciences de l’environnement de Paris, CNRS, UMR 7618, Sorbonne Universite, Paris, 75005, France Station d’Ecologie Theorique et Experimentale de Moulis, CNRS, UMR 5321, Saint Girons, 09200, France Department of Biological Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701, Greece Institut de Systematique,Evolution, Biodiversite, CNRS, Museum national d’Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Universite, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes and Universite des Antilles, UMR 72 School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, 1142, New Zealand School of Agricultural, Environmental and Veterinary Sciences, Faculty of Science and Health, Charles Sturt University, Port Macquarie NSW 2444, Australia Laboratoire Evolution et Diversite Biologique, CNRS, UMR 5174, Toulouse, 31077, France Centre de recherche en ecologie experimentale et predictive-Ecotron IleDeFrance, CNRS, Ecole Normale Superieure, UMS 3194, Saint-Pierre-les-Nemours, 77140, France C2 Laboratoire des sciences de l’environnement marin, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Universite Bretagne Occidentale, Institut de recherche pour le developpement, Institut Francais de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer, UMR 6539, Plouzane, 29280, France UNIV CALIF SANTA CRUZ, USA UNIV RIDER, USA UNIV LA ROCHELLE, FRANCE UNIV SORBONNE, FRANCE CNRS, FRANCE UNIV OHIO, GREECE MNHN, FRANCE UNIV AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND UNIV CHARLES STURT, AUSTRALIA CNRS, FRANCE CNRS, FRANCE IF 11.1 TC 21 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00787/89946/95444.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00787/89946/95445.pdf LA English DT Article DE ;aging;ectotherms;population extinction;telomeres;life-history tradeoffs AB Aging is the price to pay for acquiring and processing energy through cellular activity and life history productivity. Climate warming can exacerbate the inherent pace of aging, as illustrated by a faster erosion of protective telomere DNA sequences. This biomarker integrates individual pace of life and parental effects through the germline, but whether intra- and intergenerational telomere dynamics underlies population trends remains an open question. Here, we investigated the covariation between life history, telomere length (TL), and extinction risk among three age classes in a cold-adapted ectotherm (Zootoca vivipara) facing warming-induced extirpations in its distribution limits. TL followed the same threshold relationships with population extinction risk at birth, maturity, and adulthood, suggesting intergenerational accumulation of accelerated aging rate in declining populations. In dwindling populations, most neonates inherited already short telomeres, suggesting they were born physiologically old and unlikely to reach recruitment. At adulthood, TL further explained females’ reproductive performance, switching from an index of individual quality in stable populations to a biomarker of reproductive costs in those close to extirpation. We compiled these results to propose the aging loop hypothesis and conceptualize how climate-driven telomere shortening in ectotherms may accumulate across generations and generate tipping points before local extirpation. PY 2022 PD AUG SO Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America SN 0027-8424 PU Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences VL 119 IS 33 UT 000891285200008 DI 10.1073/pnas.2201371119 ID 89946 ER EF