Evolution of late-life mortality in Drosophila melanogaster

Evolution

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1982-1991

  Rose, Michael R ^a   Drapeau, Mark D ^a   Yazdi, Puya G ^a   Shah, Kandarp H ^a   Moise, Diana B ^a   Thakar, Rena R ^a   Rauser, Casandra L ^a   Mueller, Laurence D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Antagonistic pleiotropy; Force of natural selection; Late life; Mortality plateau; Mutation accumulation

Indexed keywords

AGING; EVOLUTION; FLY; MORTALITY; MUTATION; NATURAL SELECTION;

DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILIDAE; MELANOGASTER;

AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CROSS BREEDING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETICS; HETEROSIS; LONGEVITY; MALE; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

AGING; ANIMALS; CROSSES, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HYBRID VIGOR; LONGEVITY; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036808642     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2002.tb00124.x     Document Type: Article

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