The paternal age at conception effect on offspring telomere length: Mechanistic, comparative and adaptive perspectives

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 373, Issue 1741, 2018, Pages

  Eisenberg, Dan T A ^a   Kuzawa, Christopher W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disposable soma; Evolutionary biology; Intergenerational inertia; Plasticity; Predictive adaptive response; Senescence

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; CALIBRATION; CELL; CHROMOSOME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HETEROGENEITY; INERTIA; PATERNAL EFFECT; PLASTICITY; PREDICTION; SENESCENCE; SPERM;

TELOMERASE;

ADAPTATION; AGING; ANIMAL; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; PATERNAL AGE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGING; ANIMALS; CHILD; FERTILIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; PATERNAL AGE; SPERMATOZOA; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

EID: 85040674997     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0442     Document Type: Review

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