Shorter telomere length with age in the loggerhead turtle: A new hope for live sea turtle age estimation

Genes and Genetic Systems

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 423-426

  Hatase, Hideo ^a   Sudo, Ryusuke ^a   Watanabe, Kunihiro K ^a   Kasugai, Takashi ^b   Saito, Tomomi ^b   Okamoto, Hitoshi ^b   Uchida, Itaru ^b   Tsukamoto, Katsumi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Minato ku   (Japan)

Author keywords

Age; Caretta caretta; Real time PCR; reptile; Telomere

Indexed keywords

DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

AGE DETERMINATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CARETTA CARETTA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDERMIS; NONHUMAN; TELOMERE; TURTLE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TELOMERE; TURTLES;

CARETTA; CARETTA CARETTA; CHELONIIDAE; REPTILIA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 61849172321     PISSN: 13417568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1266/ggs.83.423     Document Type: Article

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