Telomere Attrition Due to Infection

Petteri Ilmonen; Alexander Kotrschal; Dustin J. Penn

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002143

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Telomere Attrition Due to Infection

Petteri Ilmonen ,

* E-mail: p.ilmonen@klivv.oeaw.ac.at

Affiliation Konrad Lorenz Institute for Ethology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
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Alexander Kotrschal,

Current address: Behavioural Ecology, Institute of Zoology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Affiliation Konrad Lorenz Institute for Ethology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
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Dustin J. Penn

Affiliation Konrad Lorenz Institute for Ethology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
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Telomere Attrition Due to Infection

Petteri Ilmonen,
Alexander Kotrschal,
Dustin J. Penn

Published: May 14, 2008
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0002143

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Important piece of science

Posted by dtae on 19 Apr 2009 at 13:09 GMT

One of the better demonstrations of telomere function in the literature. Good use of recently wild derived mouse strain rather than the unreliable normal strains.

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