Patterns of aging in the long-lived wandering albatross

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 6370-6375

  Lecomte, Vincent Julien ^a   Sorci, Gabriele ^b   Cornet, Stéphane ^b   Jaeger, Audrey ^a   Faivre, Bruno ^b   Arnoux, Emilie ^b   Gaillard, Maria ^b   Trouvé, Colette ^a   Besson, Dominique ^a   Chastel, Olivier ^a   Weimerskirch, Henri ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Foraging; Immunity; Oxidative stress; Senescence; Sex

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; HORMONE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BIRD; CELL AGING; FEMALE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMORAL IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; MALE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; VERTEBRATE; WANDERING ALBATROSS;

AGING; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; DIOMEDEA EXULANS; DIOMEDEIDAE; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77950908644     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0911181107     Document Type: Article

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