Ecology and mode-of-life explain lifespan variation in birds and mammals

K Healy, T Guillerme, S Finlay… - … of the Royal …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
longevity tends to remain unchanged between captive and wild populations [23]. Further,
given that bats and birds … a partial explanation for the exceptional longevity of naked mole rats (…

Avian longevity and aging

WA Calder, DE Harrison - Genetic effects on aging, 1990 - books.google.com
… demands, hummingbirds have exceptional longevity. This has … Thus it is not clear that
longevity in bats is related to the … which we find that birds are masters of longevity. Then we …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution of mammalian longevity: age-related increase in autophagy in bats compared to other mammals

J Kacprzyk, AG Locatelli, GM Hughes, Z Huang… - Aging (Albany …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… To ascertain if autophagy is involved in batsexceptional longevity, we firstly mined our
published longitudinal bat blood transcriptomes [9] and identified 26 autophagy-associated …

Fibroblasts from longer-lived species of primates, rodents, bats, carnivores, and birds resist protein damage

AM Pickering, M Lehr, WJ Kohler… - … of Gerontology Series …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
… , birds, and species from the Laurasiatheria superorder (bats, carnivores, shrews, and ungulates),
we find associations between species longevity … related to the exceptional longevity in …

The uniqueness of bats

PA Racey - Bats and viruses: a new frontier of emerging …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
birds (nightjars and goatsuckers), an Old World bat hawk … Bats are distributed throughout
the world, with the exception of … caloric restriction which increases longevity in other mammals. …

Arboreality has allowed for the evolution of increased longevity in mammals

MR Shattuck, SA Williams - Proceedings of the National …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
… It has long been recognized that birds and bats are characterized by lower rates of extrinsic
exceptional longevity of Chiroptera as a whole is the result of flight. In addition to flying birds

[HTML][HTML] Genetic variation between long-lived versus short-lived bats illuminates the molecular signatures of longevity

Z Huang, CV Whelan, D Dechmann… - Aging (Albany NY …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Bats are the longest-lived mammals given their body size with majority of species exhibiting
exceptional longevity. However, there are some short-lived species that do not exhibit …

Mammalian aging, metabolism, and ecology: evidence from the bats and marsupials

SN Austad, KE Fischer - Journal of gerontology, 1991 - academic.oup.com
… Nearly all our longevity data derive from captive populations with the exception of the bats,
for which 82% (41/50) of our data are from the wild. Information on the life span of wild …

Comparative metabolomics of aging in a long-lived bat: Insights into the physiology of extreme longevity

HC Ball, S Levari-Shariati, LN Cooper, M Aliani - PLoS One, 2018 - journals.plos.org
… exploration of the physiological mechanisms bats employ to achieve exceptional longevity.
… The exceptional longevity of many bat species has piqued the interest of researchers aiming …

Antioxidant defenses, longevity and ecophysiology of South American bats

D Wilhelm Filho, SL Althoff, AL Dafré… - … and Physiology Part C …, 2007 - Elsevier
… With the exception of the single specimen of Tadarida brasiliensis that was caught in Buenos
Aires, the other four bat species were captured in bird nets during early night (between 20:…