The evolution of age-specific mortality rates in Drosophila melanogaster: Genetic divergence among unselected lines

Genetics

Volumn 153, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 813-823

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; LONGEVITY; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUTATION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0032857238     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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