Testing the heterogeneity theory of late-life mortality plateaus by using cohorts of Drosophila melanogaster

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 71-84

  Drapeau, Mark D ^a   Gass, Erin K ^a   Simison, Michael D ^a   Mueller, Laurence D ^a   Rose, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ageing; Demography; Frailty; Fruit fly; Longevity; Medfly; Negative aging; Stress; Survival

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; LONGEVITY; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; SURVIVAL; THEORY;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; MALE; MORTALITY;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0034141308     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0531-5565(99)00082-0     Document Type: Article

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