Age-specific properties of spontaneous mutations affecting mortality in Drosophila melanogaster

Genetics

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 287-303

  Pletcher, Scott D ^a   Houle, David ^b   Curtsinger, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; LONGEVITY; MORTALITY; MUTATION; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0031906848     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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