Statistical tests of demographic heterogeneity theories

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 373-386

  Mueller, Laurence D ^a   Drapeau, Mark D ^a   Adams, Curtis S ^a,b   Hammerle, Christopher W ^a   Doyal, Kristy M ^a   Jazayeri, Ali J ^a   Ly, Tuan ^a   Beguwala, Suhail A ^a   Mamidi, Avi R ^a   Rose, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ageing; Antagonistic pleiotropy; Evolutionary; Frailty; Fruit fly; Longevity; Medfly; Mutation accumulation; Negative aging; Senescence; Stress; Survival

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; LONGEVITY; MALE; MORTALITY; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORY;

AGING; ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; LONGEVITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0037381928     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0531-5565(02)00238-3     Document Type: Article

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