Measuring animal age with DNA methylation: From humans to wild animals

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue AUG, 2017, Pages

  De Paoli Iseppi, Ricardo ^a,b   Deagle, Bruce E ^b   McMahon, Clive R ^c   Hindell, Mark A ^a   Dickinson, Joanne L ^d   Jarman, Simon N ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^c SYDNEY INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^e CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ageing; Conservation; Ecology; Epigenetics; Methylation; Wild animals

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE RECEPTOR; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BIRD; CHICKEN; DNA METHYLATION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY; EPIGENETICS; EXTREME ENVIRONMENT; FISH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; QUAIL; REPTILE; REVIEW; SKIN BIOPSY; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; WILD ANIMAL;

EID: 85028328466     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2017.00106     Document Type: Review

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