… age. In addition, a study showed that rare stochastic events strongly affected mortality in
long-living wild adult female bats, rather than age, … , age-related changes in DNA methylation …

… Given that the aging of wild animals typically requires long-term mark-recapture data or …
age of individual bats with high accuracy. At the species level, the rate of change in DNAm at age…

… Although further work is needed to develop a biomarker capable of determining chronological
age in bats, our results suggest that biological age, as reflected in telomere length, may be …

… dynamics in wild bats aimed to determine the relationship between telomere lengths and
age using four wild long-lived bat populations, including R. ferrumequinum, Bechstein's bat (…

… , during and after the ice ages. The study also found support for … are being initiated by the
NGO, Vincent Wildlife Trust. EU … As argued by Schlötterer (2004), novel molecular approaches …

… collected from four wild Bechstein’s bat colonies. We … bats and those that started reproduction
at younger ages compared to smaller bats and those starting reproduction at older ages. …

… Bechstein's bats, and assess subsequent mortality costs. Bechstein's bat is a long-lived,
forest-living … [16], the factor ‘age’ now entered as significant factor with older bats showing higher …

… external morphology and foraging behaviour: bats in the genus … Bechstein’s bat. Conservation
Genetics 4: 491–499. … sampling tools for wildlife biologists: A review of applications and …

… Here, we use DNA methylation (DNAm) profiles from 712 known-age … Application of a
novel molecular method to age free-living wild Bechstein’s bats. Mol Ecol Res 18, 1374–1380 (…

… per reproduction event or age at maturity, for example [25]. We apply the developed CMR/IPM
approach to Rhinolophus hipposideros (lesser horseshoe bat), a bat species for which …