Brain-tissue accumulation of fluorescent age pigments in four poeciliid fishes (Cyprinodontiformes) and the estimation of 'biological age'

Growth, Development and Aging

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 151-170

  Strauss, Richard E ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size; Gambusia holbrooki; Latent variable; Lipofuscin; Metabolic age; Path analysis; Poecilia reticulata; Xiphophorus helleri; Xiphophorus maculatus

Indexed keywords

LIPOFUSCIN; PIGMENT;

AGE; AGE DETERMINATION; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FISH; FLUORESCENCE; MEASUREMENT; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AGING; ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT DYES; LIPOFUSCIN; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; POECILIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

CYPRINODONTIFORMES; GAMBUSIA HOLBROOKI; PISCES; POECILIA RETICULATA; POECILIIDAE; VERTEBRATA; XIPHOPHORUS HELLERII; XIPHOPHORUS MACULATUS;

EID: 0033506337     PISSN: 10411232     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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