Parallel telomere shortening in multiple body tissues owing to malaria infection

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 283, Issue 1836, 2016, Pages

  Asghar, Muhammad ^a   Palinauskas, Vaidas ^b   Zaghdoudi Allan, Nadège ^c   Valkiūnas, Gediminas ^b   Mukhin, Andrey ^d   Platonova, Elena ^d   Färnert, Anna ^a,e   Bensch, Staffan ^c   Hasselquist, Dennis ^c  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d Zoological Institute   (Russian Federation)

^e KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ageing; Cost of infection; Malaria; Spinus spinus; Systemic stress; Telomere length

Indexed keywords

AGING; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; CHROMOSOME; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MALARIA; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PARASITE INFESTATION; PASSERINE; PROTOZOAN;

AVES; CARDUELIS;

ANIMAL; AVIAN MALARIA; PARASITOLOGY; PASSERIFORMES; PATHOLOGY; PLASMODIUM; TELOMERE; TELOMERE SHORTENING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; MALARIA, AVIAN; PASSERIFORMES; PLASMODIUM; TELOMERE; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

EID: 84982255276     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.1184     Document Type: Article

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