Short telomeres in hatchling snakes: Erythrocyte telomere dynamics and longevity in tropical pythons

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Ujvari, Beata ^a,b   Madsen, Thomas ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; HATCHLING; LONGEVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PYTHON; SEX DIFFERENCE; SNAKE; SOMATIC CELL; SURVIVAL; TELOMERE; AGING; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL AGING; DNA SEQUENCE; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; TIME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AVES; LIASIS FUSCUS; PYTHONIDAE; SERPENTES; VERTEBRATA;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BOIDAE; CELL AGING; CELL PROLIFERATION; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; LONGEVITY; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEX FACTORS; SNAKES; TELOMERE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70449412077     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007493     Document Type: Article

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