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Causes and consequences of senescence in wild insects

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Coordinator	THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER Organization address address: THE QUEEN'S DRIVE NORTHCOTE HOUSE city: EXETER postcode: EX4 4QJ website: www.ex.ac.uk contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	United Kingdom [UK]
Total cost	195˙454 €
EC max contribution	195˙454 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility)
Code Call	H2020-MSCA-IF-2017
Funding Scheme	MSCA-IF-EF-ST
Starting year	2018
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2018-09-01 to 2020-08-31

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER Organization address address: THE QUEEN'S DRIVE NORTHCOTE HOUSE city: EXETER postcode: EX4 4QJ website: www.ex.ac.uk contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	UK (EXETER)	coordinator	195˙454.00

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Project objective

This project will study the evolutionary ecology of senescence – how and why biological performance declines with age. Understanding senescence in nature requires us to study interactions between the environment and natural and sexual selection and how they shape patterns of ageing. I will study life-history trade-offs in both lab and natural environments exploiting an existing project on a wild cricket population that has amassed 12 years of data. My study system consists of annual generations of a few hundred individually tagged, video-monitored and genotyped individuals. This system will allow me to address evolutionary questions about senescence that are very hard to study in much longer lived vertebrates. My approach of studying senescence in both lab and field environments is timely in the face of the current state of the art showing that the fitness outcomes of genetically controlled pathways with pleiotropic early and late-life effects depend on the environment in which they are studied. I will use techniques in eco-physiology (telomere measurements), animal breeding (quantitative genetics), and evolutionary ecology (life-history trade-offs and animal behaviour) to study the extent to which (i) telomeres can be used as biomarker of ageing in insects, (ii) life-history trade-offs including behaviour underpinning senescence, and (iii) the extent to which these phenotypic correlations are also expressed as genetic correlations i.e. are they heritable? These questions are key to solving the enigma of ageing, and their answers will be important for research aimed at understanding processes that drive the demographic ageing of Europe’s society. In my past research I led an eight-year experiment testing the trade-off between reproduction and ageing and telomere shortening in a large wild bird population (papers in Ecol. Lett. 2014 & 2015 & Proc.Soc.B 2014). I am excited to switch to insects to address questions that have never been tackled in their natural context.

Publications

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year	authors and title	journal	last update
2019	Rolando RodrÃguez-MuÃ±oz, Jelle J. Boonekamp, Xing P. Liu, Ian Skicko, Sophie Haugland Pedersen, David N. Fisher, Paul Hopwood, Tom Tregenza Comparing individual and population measures of senescence across 10 years in a wild insect population published pages: 293-302, ISSN: 0014-3820, DOI: 10.1111/evo.13674	Evolution 73/2	2019-11-11
2019	Rolando RodrÃguezâ€MuÃ±oz, Jelle J. Boonekamp, Xing P. Liu, Ian Skicko, David N. Fisher, Paul Hopwood, Tom Tregenza Testing the effect of earlyâ€life reproductive effort on ageâ€related decline in a wild insect published pages: 317-328, ISSN: 0014-3820, DOI: 10.1111/evo.13679	Evolution 73/2	2019-11-11
2019	Rolando RodrÃguez-MuÃ±oz, Jelle J. Boonekamp, David Fisher, Paul Hopwood, Tom Tregenza Slower senescence in a wild insect population in years with a more female-biased sex ratio published pages: 20190286, ISSN: 0962-8452, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.0286	Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286/1900	2019-11-11

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