Dr. Marina B. Blanco is a Researcher at Duke University, Durham, NC. Since 2004, Marina has conducted research on the ecology of lemurs from Madagascar, with a focus on the physiology of hibernation in mouse and dwarf lemurs.
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When Dwarf Lemurs Hibernate, Their Chromosomes Do Something Odd
The ends of chromosomes, called telomeres, typically shorten as an organism ages. But when some fat-tail dwarf lemurs hibernate, they lengthen.