All’s well that ends well: Why large species have short telomeres

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 373, Issue 1741, 2018, Pages

  Risques, Rosa Ana ^a   Promislow, Daniel E L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size; Cancer; Cellular senescence; Life history evolution; Peto s paradox; Telomeres

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CHROMOSOME; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; GENE EXPRESSION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MAMMAL; MORTALITY RISK; NUMERICAL MODEL; THRESHOLD; TRADE-OFF; TUMOR;

MAMMALIA;

TELOMERASE;

AGE; ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; CELL AGING; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MALE; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; TELOMERE; TELOMERE SHORTENING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; CELLULAR SENESCENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASMS; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

EID: 85040697454     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0448     Document Type: Article

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