Molecular biomarkers for chronological age in animal ecology

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 4826-4847

  Jarman, Simon N ^a   Polanowski, Andrea M ^a   Faux, Cassandra E ^a   Robbins, Jooke ^b   De Paoli Iseppi, Ricardo ^a,c   Bravington, Mark ^d   Deagle, Bruce E ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^b CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; epigenetic; gerontology; kinship; miRNA

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

AGING; ANIMAL; ECOLOGY; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; TELOMERE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AGING; ANIMALS; BIOMARKERS; ECOLOGY; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; TELOMERE;

EID: 84942673056     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.13357     Document Type: Review

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