prof. dr. H.L. (Hannah) Dugdale

Chair of Evolutionary Medicine, Rosalind Franklin Fellow

Faculty of Science and Engineering

Telephone:

+31 50 36 39683

E-mail:

h.l.dugdale rug.nl

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Research interests

Hannah Dugdale is Professor of Evolutionary Medicine and a Rosalind Franklin Fellow.

The Dugdale Research Group is interested in the evolution of within- and between-individual differences in behavioural and life-history traits. Our current focus is the evolution of ageing. One of the most profound challenges we all face is that we deteriorate with age – a process known as senescence. Individuals clearly senesce differently, but our understanding of how and why individuals senesce in such different ways remains limited. Our research takes a comprehensive and integrative approach to investigate why individual variation in senescence evolved and is maintained. This will generate vital knowledge on how individuals can live longer, healthier lives.

Publications

Testing the environmental buffering hypothesis of cooperative breeding in the Seychelles warbler

Borger, M. J. , Richardson, D. S. , Dugdale, H. , Burke, T. & Komdeur, J. , 13-Jan-2023 , (E-pub ahead of print) In: acta ethologica.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Absence of the pace-of-life syndrome in a territorial passerine, Acrocephalus sechellensis

Cox, T. , Sparks, A. , Burke, T. , Richardson, D. S. , Komdeur, J. & Dugdale, H. , 21-Jul-2022 .

Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › Academic

A meta-analysis on the heritability of vertebrate telomere length

Chik, H. Y. J. , Sparks, A. M. , Schroeder, J. & Dugdale, H. L. , Oct-2022 , In: Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 35 , 10 , p. 1283-1295 13 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

Assessing the causes and consequences of gut mycobiome variation in a wild population of the Seychelles warbler

Worsley, S. F. , Davies, C. S. , Mannarelli, M-E. , Komdeur, J. , Dugdale, H. L. & Richardson, D. S. , 28-Dec-2022 , In: Microbiome. 10 , 1 , 21 p. , 242.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Causes and consequences of telomere lengthening in a wild vertebrate population

Brown, T. J. , Spurgin, L. , Dugdale, H. L. , Komdeur, J. , Burke, T. & Richardson, D. S. , Dec-2022 , In: Molecular Ecology. 31 , 23 , p. 5933-5945 18 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Early-life conditions impact juvenile telomere length, but do not predict later life-history strategies or fitness in a wild vertebrate

van de Crommenacker, J. , Hammers, M. , Dugdale, H. L. , Burke, T. A. , Komdeur, J. & Richardson, D. S. , Jun-2022 , In: Ecology and Evolution. 12 , 6 , 19 p. , e8971.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review