Heritability of telomere length in the zebra finch

HIGHLIGHTS

  • who: Els Atema from the Department of Behavioural Biology, Groningen Institute of Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, , CC Groningen, The Netherlands have published the article: Heritability of telomere length in the Zebra Finch, in the Journal: (JOURNAL)
  • what: The authors report heritability estimates of telomere length in a population of captive Zebra Finches.

SUMMARY

    Telomeres are non-coding repeats of the highly conserved DNA sequence 50 -TTAGGG-30 (Meyne et_al 1989) that are important in the protection and stabilization of linear chromosomes (Blackburn 1991). Because of the end J Ornithol . . .

     

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