Deceleration of age-specific mortality rates in chromosomal homozygotes and heterozygotes of Drosophila melanogaster

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 517-531

  Fukui, H Henry ^a   Ackert, Lloyd ^a   Curtsinger, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

age specific mortality; Gompertz model; logistic model; mortality deceleration; two stage Gompertz model

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL PARAMETERS; DECELERATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; LIFESPAN; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0030201078     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0531-5565(95)02069-1     Document Type: Article

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