Inheritance of telomere length in a bird

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Horn, Thorsten ^a   Robertson, Bruce C ^a,b   Will, Margaret ^a   Eason, Daryl K ^c   Elliott, Graeme P ^c   Gemmell, Neil J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INHERITANCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROGENY; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TELOMERE; AGING; ANIMAL; GENETICS; HEREDITY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PSITTACINE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

AVES; STRIGOPS HABROPTILUS;

AGING; ANIMALS; BIRDS; FEMALE; HEREDITY; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MALE; PSITTACIFORMES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TELOMERE;

EID: 79952053633     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017199     Document Type: Article

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