Telomere dynamics in a long-lived bird, the barnacle goose

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Pauliny, Angela ^a   Larsson, Kjell ^b,c   Blomqvist, Donald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b GOTLAND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Individual telomere rate of change; Longitudinal data; Rate of ageing; Senescence; Survival; Telomere maintenance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING POPULATION; CHROMOSOME; COMPLEXITY; JUVENILE; LONGEVITY; METABOLISM; REPRODUCTIVE COST; SENESCENCE; SIGNALING; SURVIVAL; TRADE-OFF; WATERFOWL;

ANSER; AVES; BRANTA LEUCOPSIS; THORACICA;

AGE; AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENETICS; GOOSE; LONGEVITY; MALE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE SHORTENING; TIME;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GEESE; LONGEVITY; MALE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE SHORTENING; TIME FACTORS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84871699441     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-12-257     Document Type: Article

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