Telomere length provides a new technique for aging animals

Oecologia

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 325-328

  Haussmann, Mark F ^a   Vleck, Carol M ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Blood; DNA; Taeniopygia guttata; Telomere

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ANIMAL; DNA; LIFE HISTORY;

ANIMALIA; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 0036923493     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-001-0827-y     Document Type: Article

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