Increased brood size leads to persistent eroded telomeres

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue APR, 2014, Pages

  Reichert, Sophie ^a,b   Stier, Antoine ^a,b   Zahn, Sandrine ^a,b   Arrivé, Mathilde ^a,b   Bize, Pierre ^c   Massemin, Sylvie ^a,b   Criscuolo, François ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Bird; Clutch size manipulation; Cost of reproduction; Oxidative stress; Telomere; Zebra finch

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922354384     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296701X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2014.00009     Document Type: Article

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