Telomere-independent ageing in the longest-lived non-colonial animal, arctica islandica

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 38-45

  Gruber, Heike ^a,b   Schaible, Ralf ^b   Ridgway, Iain D ^b,c   Chow, Tracy T ^d   Held, Christoph ^e   Philipp, Eva E R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arctica islandica; Longevity; Maintenance; Telomerase; Telomere

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCTICA ISLANDICA; ARTICLE; BALTIC SEA; BIVALVE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ICELAND; IRELAND; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

ARCTICA ISLANDICA; LONGEVITY; MAINTENANCE; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

AGING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIVALVIA; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA; GENOME; LONGEVITY; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

EID: 84892496711     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: 18736815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2013.12.014     Document Type: Article

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