Longevity and the barren aristocrat

Nature

Volumn 396, Issue 6713, 1998, Pages 719-720

  Promislow, Daniel E L ^a  

^a University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; EVOLUTION; FAMILY SIZE; GENEALOGY; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; NATURAL SELECTION; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REPRODUCTION; SHORT SURVEY; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCTIVE HISTORY; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 0032585613     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/25440     Document Type: Short Survey

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