No evidence for parental age effects on offspring leukocyte telomere length in free-living Soay sheep

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Froy, H ^a   Bird, E J ^a   Wilbourn, R V ^a   Fairlie, J ^a   Underwood, S L ^a   Salvo Chirnside, E ^a   Pilkington, J G ^a   Berenos C ^a   Pemberton, J M ^a   Nussey, D H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAMB; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARENTHOOD; PATERNAL AGE; PREDICTION; PROGENY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TELOMERE LENGTH; ANIMAL; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CYTOLOGY; FERTILIZATION; SHEEP; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; PARENTS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHEEP; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

EID: 85028605876     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-09861-3     Document Type: Article

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