The relationship between telomere length and mortality risk in non-model vertebrate systems: A meta-analysis

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 373, Issue 1741, 2018, Pages

  Wilbourn, Rachael V ^a   Moatt, Joshua P ^a   Froy, Hannah ^a   Walling, Craig A ^a   Nussey, Daniel H ^a   Boonekamp, Jelle J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Longevity; Publication bias; Survival; Systematic review; Wild

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIOMARKER; CHROMOSOME; HETEROGENEITY; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LONGEVITY; META-ANALYSIS; MORTALITY RISK; SURVIVAL; VERTEBRATE; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; VERTEBRATA;

AGE; ANIMAL; BIRD; GENETICS; LONGEVITY; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; ODDS RATIO; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SEX FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TELOMERE; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BIRDS; LONGEVITY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; ODDS RATIO; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; TELOMERE; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

EID: 85040673024     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0447     Document Type: Article

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