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View article: Always a price to pay: hibernation at low temperatures comes with a trade-off between energy savings and telomere damage
Always a price to pay: hibernation at low temperatures comes with a trade-off between energy savings and telomere damage Open
We experimentally tested the costs of deep torpor at low temperatures by comparing telomere dynamics in two species of rodents hibernating at either 3 or 14°C. Our data show that hibernators kept at the warmer temperature had higher arousa…