Telomere length correlations among somatic tissues in adult zebra finches

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Reichert, Sophie ^a,b   Criscuolo, François ^a,b   Verinaud, Elodie ^a,b   Zahn, Sandrine ^a,b   Massemin, Sylvie ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; BRAIN; CELL METABOLISM; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; HEART; LIVER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PECTORAL MUSCLE; SPLEEN; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; FINCHES; TELOMERE;

EID: 84892570578     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081496     Document Type: Article

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