Pre-fledgling Oxidative Damage Predicts Recruitment in a Long-lived Bird

Overview

Journal Biol Lett

Specialty Biology

Date 2011 Aug 26

PMID 21865247

Citations 28

Authors

Jose Carlos Noguera

Sin-Yeon Kim

Alberto Velando

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Abstract

Empirical evidence has shown that stressful conditions experienced during development may exert long-term negative effects on life-history traits. Although it has been suggested that oxidative stress has long-term effects, little is known about delayed consequences of oxidative stress experienced early in life in fitness-related traits. Here, we tested whether oxidative stress during development has long-term effects on a life-history trait directly related to fitness in three colonies of European shags Phalacrocorax aristotelis. Our results revealed that recruitment probability decreased with oxidative damage during the nestling period; oxidative damage, in turn, was related to the level of antioxidant capacity. Our results suggest a link between oxidative stress during development and survival to adulthood, a key element of population dynamics.

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