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Short-lived mammals (shrew, mouse) have a less robust metal-responsive transcription factor than humans and bats
Non-essential “heavy” metals such as cadmium tend to accumulate in an organism and thus are a particular threat for long-lived animals. Here we show that two unrelated, short-lived groups of mammals (rodents and shrews, separated by 100 Mio years of evolution) each have independently acquired mutati...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Springer Netherlands
2016
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4879176/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27067444 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10534-016-9926-4 |