Aging, fertility, and immortality

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 38, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 27-33

  Rauser, Casandra L ^a   Mueller, Laurence D ^a   Rose, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Fecundity; Heterogeneity; Late life; Mortality plateau; Nutrition

Indexed keywords

AGING; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EGG LAYING; EVOLUTION; FEMALE FERTILITY; MALE FERTILITY; MALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; MORTALITY; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGING; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0037237958     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0531-5565(02)00148-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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