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Sex-specific innate immunity and ageing in long-lived fresh water turtles (Kinosternon flavescens: Kinosternidae)

BACKGROUND: The progressive deregulation of the immune system with age, termed immunosenescence, has been well studied in mammalian systems, but studies of immune function in long-lived, wild, non-mammalian populations are scarce. In this study we leverage a 38-year mark-recapture study to quantify...

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Autores principales: Bronikowski, Anne M., Hedrick, Ashley R., Kutz, Greta A., Holden, Kaitlyn G., Reinke, Beth, Iverson, John B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9997018/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36894996
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12979-023-00335-x