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Heritability of telomere length in the Zebra Finch

2015-04-03

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Telomere length predicts survival in birds, and many stressors that presumably reduce fitness have also been linked to telomere length. The response to selection of telomere length will be largely determined by the heritability of this trait; however, little is known about the genetic component of telomere length variation in animals other than humans. Moreover, published heritability estimates of telomere length...

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Literature Corpus work: 15ebb967-27f2-5618-91eb-80597334fc8b
DOI: 10.1007/s10336-015-1212-7

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