Telomere biology in Metazoa

FEBS Letters

Volumn 584, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 3741-3751

  Gomes, Nuno M V ^a   Shay, Jerry W ^a   Wright, Woodring E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Invertebrate; Metazoa; Senescence; Telomerase; Telomere; Vertebrate

Indexed keywords

ATM PROTEIN; DNA; KU ANTIGEN; TELOMERASE; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE;

AGING; AMPHIBIA; ARTHROPOD; BIRD; DNA DAMAGE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FISH; HUMAN; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPTILE; REVIEW; SENESCENCE; SPECIES COMPARISON; TELOMERE;

AGING; AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; FISHES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEMATODA; NEOPLASMS; REPTILES; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

AMPHIBIA; ARTHROPODA; AVES; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; METAZOA; NEMATODA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77955843060     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2010.07.031     Document Type: Review

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