Quantitative and Molecular Genetic Analyses of Mutations Increasing Drosophila Life Span
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Quantitative and Molecular Genetic Analyses of Mutations Increasing Drosophila Life Span
Understanding the genetic and environmental factors that affect variation in life span and senescence is of major interest for human health and evolutionary biology. Multiple mechanisms affect longevity, many of which are conserved across species, but the genetic networks underlying each mechanism and cross-talk between networks are unknown. We report the results of a screen for mutations affec...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Genetics
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1553-7404
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001037