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Teeth, Sex, and Testosterone: Aging in the World's Smallest Primate

Mouse lemurs (Microcebus spp.) are an exciting new primate model for understanding human aging and disease. In captivity, Microcebus murinus develops human-like ailments of old age after five years (e.g., neurodegeneration analogous to Alzheimer's disease) but can live beyond 12 years. It is be...

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Autores principales: Zohdy, Sarah, Gerber, Brian D., Tecot, Stacey, Blanco, Marina B., Winchester, Julia M., Wright, Patricia C., Jernvall, Jukka
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4212904/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25354041
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0109528