Invertebrate gerontology: The age mutations of Caenorhabditis elegans

BioEssays

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 809-815

  Lithgow, Gordon J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; METAZOA;

EID: 0030272505     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.950181007     Document Type: Review

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