Trade-off between energy expenditure and telomere shortening in hibernating dormice

New publication out in Biology Letters, lead by MSc Iris Tarmann and myself.:

The article can be found here: Nowack* J/ Tarmann* I, Hoelzl F, Smith S, Giroud S and T Ruf (2019) Always a price to pay: Hibernation at low temperatures comes with a trade-off between energy savings and telomere damage. Biology Letters https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0466 (* shared first author)