The relationship of telomere length to baseline corticosterone levels in nestlings of an altricial passerine bird in natural populations

Frontiers in Zoology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Quirici, Verónica ^a   Guerrero, Claudia Jimena ^b   Krause, Jesse S ^c   Wingfield, John C ^c   Vásquez, Rodrigo A ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD ANDRÉS BELLO   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD SANTO TOMÁS   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Brood size; Latitudinal gradient; QPCR; Thorn tailed rayadito

Indexed keywords

EID: 84953867665     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17429994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12983-016-0133-5     Document Type: Article

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