Canaries in the coal mine: A cross-species analysis of the plurality of obesity epidemics

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1712, 2011, Pages 1626-1632

  Klimentidis, Yann C ^a   Mark Beasley, T ^a   Lin, Hui Yi ^d   Murati, Giulianna ^e   Glass, Gregory E ^f   Guyton, Marcus ^a   Newton, Wendy ^g   Jorgensen, Matthew ^h   Heymsfield, Steven B ⁱ   Kemnitz, Joseph ^g   Fairbanks, Lynn ^j   Allison, David B ^a,b,c  

^a Section on Statistical Genetics   (United States)

^b Department of Nutrition Sciences ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSIDAD METROPOLITANA   (Puerto Rico)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^h WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

ⁱ Pennington Biomedical Research Center   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Author keywords

Animals; Epigenetic; Obesity

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; CANID; COAL MINE; DOMESTIC SPECIES; EPIDEMIC; ETIOLOGY; FELID; INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; OBESITY; PRIMATE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RODENT;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; PRIMATES; RODENTIA;

EID: 79955378057     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1890     Document Type: Article

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