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Coordinator |
TURUN YLIOPISTO
Organization address contact info |
Coordinator Country | Finland [FI] |
Project website | http://elephant-project.science/ |
Total cost | 1˙949˙316 € |
EC max contribution | 1˙949˙316 € (100%) |
Programme |
1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)) |
Code Call | ERC-2014-CoG |
Funding Scheme | ERC-COG |
Starting year | 2016 |
Duration (year-month-day) | from 2016-01-01 to 2021-12-31 |
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1 | TURUN YLIOPISTO | FI (Turku) | coordinator | 1˙949˙316.00 |
2 | THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD | UK (SHEFFIELD) | participant | 0.00 |
The ageing population structure of most European countries has major health, economic and social consequences that lead to a need to better understand both the evolutionary limitations of deferring ageing, as well as the mechanisms involved in growing old. Ageing involves reduced fertility, mobility and ability to combat disease, but some individuals cope with growing old better than others. Improving the quality of life at old age and predicting future changes in longevity patterns of societies might depend on our ability to develop indicators of how old we really are and how many healthy years we have ahead, and how those indicators depend on our health history across several decades. Yet, most model species used in biology are short-lived and provide a poor comparison to long-lived mammals such as humans. Further, they do not often inform on the mechanisms of ageing alongside its fitness consequences in natural populations of long-lived mammals. This project integrates different ageing mechanisms with unique data on lifelong disease and reproductive history in the most long-lived non-human mammal studied so far, the Asian elephant. I will examine how different mechanisms of ageing (telomere dynamics, oxidative stress and telomerase activity) interact with lifelong disease and reproductive history, and current endocrinological measures of stress and reproductive status. This will help us to better understand both the mechanisms of ageing and their consequences on senescence rates. To do so, I will combine the most comprehensive demographic data (N~10.000) on Asian elephants in the world with bi-monthly health assessments and disease records across life (N~2500) and with longitudinal markers of ageing and hormonal correlates of stress and reproductive potential (N~240). Understanding changes in health across life and its links to ageing rates, stress levels and life-history in a species as long-lived as humans will be relevant to a large range of end-users.
year | authors and title | journal | last update |
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2020 |
Diogo J. Franco dos Santos, John Jackson, U Kyaw Nyein, Virpi Lummaa SEX DIFFERENCES IN THE REFERENCE INTERVALS OF HEALTH PARAMETERS IN SEMICAPTIVE ASIAN ELEPHANTS (ELEPHAS MAXIMUS) FROM MYANMAR published pages: 25, ISSN: 1042-7260, DOI: 10.1638/2018-0181 |
Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 51/1 | 2020-03-31 |
2020 |
Jonathan L. Webb, Jennie A. H. Crawley, Martin W. Seltmann, Océane Liehrmann, Nicola Hemmings, U Kyaw Nyein, Htoo Htoo Aung, Win Htut, Virpi Lummaa, Mirkka Lahdenperä Evaluating the Reliability of Non-Specialist Observers in the Behavioural Assessment of Semi-Captive Asian Elephant Welfare published pages: 167, ISSN: 2076-2615, DOI: 10.3390/ani10010167 |
Animals 10/1 | 2020-03-31 |
2020 |
Seltmann, Ukonaho, Reichert, Dos Santos, Nyein, Htut, Lummaa Faecal Glucocorticoid Metabolites and H/L Ratio are Related Markers of Stress in Semi-Captive Asian Timber Elephants published pages: 94, ISSN: 2076-2615, DOI: 10.3390/ani10010094 |
Animals 10/1 | 2020-01-29 |
2019 |
Mirkka Lahdenperä, John Jackson, Win Htut, Virpi Lummaa Capture from the wild has long-term costs on reproductive success in Asian elephants published pages: 20191584, ISSN: 0962-8452, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.1584 |
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286/1912 | 2019-10-28 |
2019 |
Emily C. Lynch, Virpi Lummaa, Win Htut, Mirkka Lahdenperä Evolutionary significance of maternal kinship in a long-lived mammal published pages: 20180067, ISSN: 0962-8436, DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2018.0067 |
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 374/1780 | 2019-10-28 |
2019 |
Sophie Reichert, Vérane Berger, John Jackson, Simon N. Chapman, Win Htut, Khyne U. Mar, Virpi Lummaa Maternal age at birth shapes offspring life-history trajectory across generations in long-lived Asian elephants published pages: , ISSN: 0021-8790, DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13049 |
Journal of Animal Ecology | 2019-09-13 |
2018 |
Martin W. Seltmann, Samuli Helle, Mark J. Adams, Khyne U Mar, Mirkka Lahdenperä Evaluating the personality structure of semi-captive Asian elephants living in their natural habitat published pages: 172026, ISSN: 2054-5703, DOI: 10.1098/rsos.172026 |
Royal Society Open Science 5/2 | 2019-09-13 |
2018 |
Mirkka Lahdenperä, Khyne U. Mar, Alexandre Courtiol, Virpi Lummaa Differences in age-specific mortality between wild-caught and captive-born Asian elephants published pages: 1-10, ISSN: 2041-1723, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-05515-8 |
Nature Communications 9/1 | 2019-09-13 |
2017 |
Carly L. Lynsdale, Hannah S. Mumby, Adam D. Hayward, Khyne U. Mar, Virpi Lummaa Parasite-associated mortality in a long-lived mammal: Variation with host age, sex, and reproduction published pages: 10904-10915, ISSN: 2045-7758, DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3559 |
Ecology and Evolution 7/24 | 2019-09-13 |
2019 |
Vanessa Wilson, Anja Guenther, Øyvind Øverli, Martin W. Seltmann, Drew Altschul Future Directions for Personality Research: Contributing New Insights to the Understanding of Animal Behavior published pages: 240, ISSN: 2076-2615, DOI: 10.3390/ani9050240 |
Animals 9/5 | 2019-09-13 |
2019 |
Martin W. Seltmann, Samuli Helle, Win Htut, Mirkka Lahdenperä Males have more aggressive and less sociable personalities than females in semi-captive Asian elephants published pages: , ISSN: 2045-2322, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-39915-7 |
Scientific Reports 9/1 | 2019-09-13 |
2019 |
John Jackson, Dylan Z. Childs, Khyne U. Mar, Win Htut, Virpi Lummaa Long-term trends in wild-capture and population dynamics point to an uncertain future for captive elephants published pages: 20182810, ISSN: 0962-8452, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2018.2810 |
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286/1899 | 2019-09-13 |
2016 |
Simon N. Chapman, Hannah S. Mumby, Jennie A. H. Crawley, Khyne U. Mar, Win Htut, Aung Thura Soe, Htoo Htoo Aung, Virpi Lummaa How Big Is It Really? Assessing the Efficacy of Indirect Estimates of Body Size in Asian Elephants published pages: e0150533, ISSN: 1932-6203, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0150533 |
PLOS ONE 11/3 | 2019-09-13 |
2019 |
Jennie A. H. Crawley, Mirkka Lahdenperä, Martin W. Seltmann, Win Htut, Htoo Htoo Aung, Kyaw Nyein, Virpi Lummaa Investigating changes within the handling system of the largest semi-captive population of Asian elephants published pages: e0209701, ISSN: 1932-6203, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0209701 |
PLOS ONE 14/1 | 2019-09-13 |
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