Urban environment shortens telomere length in nestling great tits, Parus major

Biology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Salmon P ^a   Nilsson, J F ^a   Nord, A ^a,b   Bensch, S ^a   Isaksson, C ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic pollution; Development; Telomeres; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BIOMARKER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; PASSERINE; URBAN ECONOMY; URBANIZATION;

AVES; PARUS MAJOR;

ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; PASSERIFORMES; PHYSIOLOGY; SWEDEN; TELOMERE; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; PASSERIFORMES; SWEDEN; TELOMERE; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

EID: 84991622027     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0155     Document Type: Article

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