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Social Isolation Shortens Telomeres in African Grey Parrots (Psittacus erithacus erithacus)

Telomeres, the caps of eukaryotic chromosomes, control chromosome stability and cellular senescence, but aging and exposure to chronic stress are suspected to cause attrition of telomere length. We investigated the effect of social isolation on telomere length in the highly social and intelligent Af...

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Main Authors: Aydinonat, Denise, Penn, Dustin J., Smith, Steve, Moodley, Yoshan, Hoelzl, Franz, Knauer, Felix, Schwarzenberger, Franz
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3976323/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24705445
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0093839
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