Age Determination and Lifespan of Marine Animal Species

[en] Determining the lifespan of marine animals is not easy because they live underwater, in the wild, and not in the laboratory. Various indirect methods have been used to overcome this issue. This article describes these methods and tries to explain why some non-mammalian marine species can live so long, when compared to mammals, terrestrial or not.

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Aquatic sciences & oceanology
Life sciences: Multidisciplinary, general & others
Zoology

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Le Bourg, Baptiste ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Biologie, Ecologie et Evolution > Océanographie biologique

Le Bourg, Eric; Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse 3 - UPS > Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale, UMR CNRS 5169

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English

Title :

Age Determination and Lifespan of Marine Animal Species

Publication date :

04 June 2019

Main work title :

Encyclopedia of Biomedical Gerontology

Editor :

Rattan, Suresh

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Academic Press, Cambridge, United States - Massachusetts

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9780128160756

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