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Sex differences in sand lizard telomere inheritance: paternal epigenetic effects increases telomere heritability and offspring survival
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BACKGROUND: To date, the only estimate of the heritability of telomere length in wild populations comes from humans. Thus, there is a need for analysis of natural populations with respect to how telomeres evolve. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: Here, we show that telomere length is heritable in free-ranging sand lizards, Lacerta agilis. More importantly, heritability estimates analysed within, and contrasted between, the sexes are markedly different; son-sire heritability is much higher rela...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1371/journal.pone.0017473
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- Publisher:
- Public Library of Science
- Journal:
- PLoS ONE More from this journal
- Volume:
- 6
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- e17473
- Publication date:
- 2011-04-22
- Acceptance date:
- 2011-02-04
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1932-6203
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English
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pubs:209424
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209424
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- Olsson et al
- Copyright date:
- 2011
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- © 2011 Olsson et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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