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Theories of ageing predict a trade-off between metabolism, reproduction, and maintenance. Species with low investment in early reproduction are thus expected to be able to evolve more efficient maintenance and repair mechanisms, allowing for a longer potential life span (intrinsic longevity). The erosion of telomeres, the protective caps at the ends of linear chromosomes, plays an important role in cellular and organismal senescence, signalling the onset of age-related disease due to accumulation of unrepaired somatic damage. Using extensive longitudinal data from a long-term study of a natural population of barnacle geese Branta leucopsis, we investigated individual rates of telomere length changes over two years in 34 birds between 0 and 22 years of age, covering almost 80% of the species' lifespan.
Pubmed ID: 23273548
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An end-to-end application allowing individual regional analysis of cortical thickness. This cross-platform tool can be run within Slicer3 as an external module, or directly as a command line. * Operating System: MacOS, Linux * Programming Language: C++ * Supported Data Format: ANALYZE, Nrrd, Other Format * build requires: Insight Toolkit
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