Ageing and the cost of maintaining coloration in the Australian painted dragon

Biology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Giraudeau, Mathieu ^a,b,c   Friesen, Christopher R ^a   Sudyka, Joanna ^d   Rollings, Nicky ^a   Whittington, Camilla M ^a   Wilson, Mark R ^e   Olsson, Mats ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^d JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Colour fading; Reactive oxygen species; Telomere erosion

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; CHROMOSOME; COLOR; CYTOGENETICS; GENETIC STRUCTURE; LIZARD; OXYGEN; PHYSIOLOGY;

AUSTRALIA;

ANIMALIA;

REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

AGING; ANIMAL; BLOOD; COLOR; LIZARD; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

AGING; ANIMALS; COLOR; LIZARDS; MALE; PIGMENTATION; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

EID: 84979530259     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0077     Document Type: Article

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