Social Isolation Shortens Telomeres in African Grey Parrots (Psittacus erithacus erithacus)

Telomeres, the caps of eukaryotic chromosomes, control chromosome stability and cellular senescence, but aging and exposure to chronic stress are suspected to cause attrition of telomere length. We investigated the effect of social isolation on telomere length in the highly social and intelligent Af...

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Autores principales: Aydinonat, Denise, Penn, Dustin J., Smith, Steve, Moodley, Yoshan, Hoelzl, Franz, Knauer, Felix, Schwarzenberger, Franz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3976323/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24705445
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0093839

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3976323/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24705445
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0093839

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