Seasonal variation in telomere length of a hibernating rodent

Biology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Turbill, Christopher ^a   Ruf, Thomas ^b   Smith, Steve ^c   Bieber, Claudia ^b  

^a WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^c FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ageing; Dormouse; Hibernation; Torpor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; BODY MASS; CHROMOSOME; HIBERNATION; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RODENT; SEASONAL VARIATION;

AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; DORMOUSE; FEMALE; GENETICS; HIBERNATION; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; SEASON; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TESTIS; TIME;

AGING; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HIBERNATION; MALE; MYOXIDAE; ORGAN SIZE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TESTIS; TIME FACTORS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874167161     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.1095     Document Type: Article

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