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Effects of brood size manipulation and common origin on phenotype and telomere length in nestling collared flycatchers

BACKGROUND: Evidence is accumulating that telomere length is a good predictor of life expectancy, especially early in life, thus calling for determining the factors that affect telomere length at this stage. Here, we investigated the relative influence of early growth conditions and origin (genetics...

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Autores principales: Voillemot, Marie, Hine, Kathryn, Zahn, Sandrine, Criscuolo, François, Gustafsson, Lars, Doligez, Blandine, Bize, Pierre
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3547695/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22901085
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6785-12-17