Telomere length reflects phenotypic quality and costs of reproduction in a long-lived seabird

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• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2013-02-07

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1098/rspb.2012.2540PMID 23222450PMCID PMC3574312
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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