Another set of responses and correlated responses to selection on age at reproduction in Drosophila melanogaster

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1416, 1999, Pages 255-261

  Partridge, Linda ^a   Prowse, Nik ^a   Pignatelli, Patricia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Artificial selection; Correlated responses; Fertility; Pleiotropy; Survival

Indexed keywords

AGE; FERTILITY; SURVIVAL;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; MALE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0033531345     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0630     Document Type: Article

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