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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Hlavní autoři: Aydinonat, Denise, Penn, Dustin J., Smith, Steve, Moodley, Yoshan, Hoelzl, Franz, Knauer, Felix, Schwarzenberger, Franz
Médium: Artigo
Jazyk:Inglês
Vydáno: Public Library of Science 2014
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On-line přístup: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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