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Rapid growth accelerates telomere attrition in a transgenic fish

BACKGROUND: Individuals rarely grow as fast as their physiologies permit despite the fitness advantages of being large. One reason may be that rapid growth is costly, resulting for example in somatic damage. The chromosomal ends, the telomeres, are particularly vulnerable to such damage, and telomer...

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Autores principales: Pauliny, Angela, Devlin, Robert H., Johnsson, Jörgen I., Blomqvist, Donald
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4535669/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26268318
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-015-0436-8