Bats and birds: Exceptional longevity despite high metabolic rates

Ageing Research Reviews

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 12-19

  Munshi South, Jason ^a   Wilkinson, Gerald S ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Ageing; Bats; Birds; Flight; Longevity; Oxidative theory of ageing; Senescence

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CALPAIN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

AGING; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; BAT; BIRD; BODY SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; ECOLOGICAL GENETICS; EVOLUTION; FIBROBLAST; FLIGHT; GENOME SIZE; LATITUDE; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; METABOLIC RATE; METABOLISM; MIGRATION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SENESCENCE; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TELOMERE;

AGING; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; BODY SIZE; CHIROPTERA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ENERGY METABOLISM; EVOLUTION; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; LONGEVITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; TELOMERE;

AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 72149131462     PISSN: 15681637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arr.2009.07.006     Document Type: Short Survey

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