The evolutionary genetics of ageing and longevity

Heredity

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 589-597

  Zwaan, Bas J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ageing; Antagonistic pleiotropy; Life history; Mortality; Mutation

Indexed keywords

AGING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; GENE MAPPING; GENETICS; MUTATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

AGING; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; LONGEVITY;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0033152519     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2540.1999.00544.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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