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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |