A reconsideration of stress experiments and population heterogeneity

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 727-729

  Curtsinger, James W ^a   Khazaeli, Aziz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA; HEAT STRESS; LONGEVITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0030708719     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0531-5565(97)00053-3     Document Type: Article

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