Telomere Length Shortens with Body Length in Alligator mississippiensis
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Telomere Length Shortens with Body Length in Alligator mississippiensis
In Alligator mississippiensis (American Alligator), body length increases with age, but body length can be used as an accurate estimator of age only up to about 6–7 years, when growth rates slow considerably. Telomeres are repetitive DNA sequences that cap the ends of each chromosome. Telomeres shorten with age in most animals, but telomere shortening has not been examined in reptiles. We measu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Southeastern Naturalist
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1528-7092,1938-5412
DOI: 10.1656/1528-7092(2006)5[685:tlswbl]2.0.co;2