Epigenetic inheritance of telomere length in wild birds.

Telomere length (TL) predicts health and survival across taxa. Variation in TL between individuals is thought to be largely of genetic origin, but telomere inheritance is unusual, because zygotes already express a TL phenotype, the TL of the parental gametes. Offspring TL changes with paternal age i...

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Main Authors: Christina Bauch, Jelle J Boonekamp, Peter Korsten, Ellis Mulder, Simon Verhulst
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-02-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1007827