Social Isolation Shortens Telomeres in African Grey Parrots (Psittacus erithacus erithacus)

Denise Aydinonat; Dustin J. Penn; Steve Smith; Yoshan Moodley; Franz Hoelzl; Felix Knauer; Franz Schwarzenberger

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0093839

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Social Isolation Shortens Telomeres in African Grey Parrots (Psittacus erithacus erithacus)

Denise Aydinonat,

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, Biochemistry, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria, Department of Integrative Biology and Evolution, Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria
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Dustin J. Penn ,

* E-mail: dustin.penn@vetmeduni.ac.at

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology and Evolution, Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria
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Steve Smith,

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology and Evolution, Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria
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Yoshan Moodley,

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology and Evolution, Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria
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Franz Hoelzl,

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology and Evolution, Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria
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Felix Knauer,

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology and Evolution, Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria
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Franz Schwarzenberger

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Biochemistry, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria
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Social Isolation Shortens Telomeres in African Grey Parrots (Psittacus erithacus erithacus)

Denise Aydinonat,
Dustin J. Penn,
Steve Smith,
Yoshan Moodley,
Franz Hoelzl,
Felix Knauer,
Franz Schwarzenberger

Published: April 4, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0093839

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Correction to our acknowledgements

Posted by aydinonat on 12 May 2014 at 13:55 GMT

We would like to extend our acknowledgements, since the Tierklinik Strebersdorf was mistakely omitted. The full acknowledgments should read:
The authors thank the owners of the 'Tierklinik Strebersdorf, Hochleithner GmbH', Claudia and Manfred Hochleithner and their team for their help in collecting the samples used in this study. Our gratitude is extended to Petteri Ilmonen, Valeria Montano and Wouter van Dongen for their input and Hanja Brandl for assistance in the laboratory. In addition, we thank two anonymous reviewers for their help in improving our manuscript. (Aydinonat et al.)

No competing interests declared.

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