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I am interested in a wide range of questions related to the interplay of evolutionary and behavioural ecology. I focus my research in the role that telomeres play in life history trade-offs at evolutionary level.
Previous results suggest that disease and physiological stress acelerate senescence by telomeres shortening and both have effects on Darwinian fitness due to shorter lifespan and worse offspring quality. Therefore, my main objective is to investigate how mild disease, immune responses and aging are related with reproductive performances and life history strategies in birds.
My research is based on a wild population of great reed warblers (Acrocephalus arundinaceus), as part of an ongoing long-term study at Lake Kvismaren, Orebro, in southern central Sweden.
During my doctoral studies, I will analyse longitudinal data of early life telomere length (eTL) and telomere length dynamics to investigate whether eTL predicts malaria infection or disease recovery, as well as how infected/recovered birds differ in telomere shortening and aging. Also, I will study reproductive performance and Darwinian fitness data to test how disease recovered versus chronically infected great reed warblers differ with in reproductive and life history strategies (e.g., pace-of-life hypothesis).
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis (compilation)
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Gomez Blanco, D. (PI)
The Royal Physiographic Society in Lund
2022/12/01 → 2023/12/31
Project: Research