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DNA repair and anti-cancer mechanisms in the long-lived bowhead whale

2023-05-08

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At over 200 years, the maximum lifespan of the bowhead whale exceeds that of all other mammals. The bowhead is also the second-largest animal on Earth, reaching over 80,000 kg 1 . Despite its very large number of cells and long lifespan, the bowhead is not highly cancer-prone, an incongruity termed Peto’s Paradox 2 . This phenomenon has been explained by the evolution of additional tumor suppressor genes in othe...

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Literature Corpus work: 8598d16f-3d9f-5a4a-82a5-14e82b053649
DOI: 10.1101/2023.05.07.539748

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