C. elegans clk-2, a gene that limits life span, encodes a telomere length regulator similar to yeast telomere binding protein Tel2p

Current Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 21, 2001, Pages 1706-1710

  Lim, Chang Su ^a   Mian, I Saira ^a   Dernburg, Abby F ^a   Campisi, Judith ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL MODEL; BINDING PROTEIN; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCING; GENETIC REGULATION; TELOMERE;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0035975979     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(01)00526-7     Document Type: Article

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