Coevolution of telomerase activity and body mass in mammals: From mice to beavers

Mechanisms of Ageing and Development

Volumn 130, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 3-9

  Gorbunova, Vera ^a   Seluanov, Andrei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cancer; Evolution; Telomerase

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

ANTHROPOIDEA; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CARNIVORE; CELL AGING; CELL DIVISION; COEVOLUTION; DEFENSE MECHANISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REPRESSION; HUMAN; LAGOMORPH; LIFESPAN; MACACA; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT; SENESCENCE; SOMATIC CELL; TELOMERE; UNGULATE;

AGING; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MAMMALS; MICE; RODENTIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TELOMERASE;

ANIMALIA; CASTORIDAE; MAMMALIA; MUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 58149341744     PISSN: 00476374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mad.2008.02.008     Document Type: Article

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