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Telomere shortening as a mechanism of long-term cost of infectious diseases in natural animal populations
22 May 2019
Abstract excerpt
Pathogens are potent selective forces that can reduce the fitness of their hosts. While studies of the short-term energetic costs of infections are accumulating, the long-term costs have only just started to be investigated. Such delayed costs may, at least in part, be mediated by telomere erosion. This hypothesis is supported by experimental investigations conducted on laboratory animals which show that...
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