Signals from the reproductive system regulate the lifespan of C. elegans

Nature

Volumn 399, Issue 6734, 1999, Pages 362-366

  Hsin, Honor ^a   Kenyon, Cynthia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LONGEVITY; NEMATODE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

AGING; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GERM LINE; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOZOON;

AGING; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; GENES, HELMINTH; GERM CELLS; GONADS; HELMINTH PROTEINS; LARVA; LONGEVITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; RECEPTOR, INSULIN; REPRODUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0033609291     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/20694     Document Type: Article

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