Growing old, yet staying young: The role of telomeres in bats’ exceptional longevity

Understanding aging is a grand challenge in biology. Exceptionally long-lived animals have mechanisms that underpin extreme longevity. Telomeres are protective nucleotide repeats on chromosome tips that shorten with cell division, potentially limiting life span. Bats are the longest-lived mammals fo...

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Autores principales: Foley, Nicole M., Hughes, Graham M., Huang, Zixia, Clarke, Michael, Jebb, David, Whelan, Conor V., Petit, Eric J., Touzalin, Frédéric, Farcy, Olivier, Jones, Gareth, Ransome, Roger D., Kacprzyk, Joanna, O’Connell, Mary J., Kerth, Gerald, Rebelo, Hugo, Rodrigues, Luísa, Puechmaille, Sébastien J., Teeling, Emma C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2018
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Research Articles
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5810611/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29441358
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aao0926

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