Extremely short lifespan in the annual fish Nothobranchius furzeri

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2003, Pages

  Valdesalici, Stefano ^a   Cellerino, Alessandro ^b  

^a Associazione Italiana Killifish   (Italy)

^b CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ageing; Evolutionary biology; Killifish; Senescence

Indexed keywords

AGING; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FISH; LONGEVITY; SENESCENCE; SURVIVAL;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FISH; LIFESPAN; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NOTHOBRANCHIUS FURZERI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SENESCENCE; SEXUAL MATURATION; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALIA; FUNDULUS HETEROCLITUS; NOTHOBRANCHIUS FURZERI; PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0242574697     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0048     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Amsterdam, A., Lin, S., Moss, L. G. & Hopkins, N. 1996 Requirements for green fluorescent protein detection in transgenic zebrafish embryos. Gene 173, 99-103. (DOI 10.1016/0378-1119(95)00719-9.)
2. Driever, W. (and 11 others) 1996 A genetic screen for mutations affecting embryogenesis in zebrafish. Development 123, 37-46.
3. Foersch, W. 1975 Eine neuer Prachtgrundkärpfling: Nothobranchius furzeri Jubb 1971. Deutsche Aquarien Terrarien Zeitung 28, 111-115.
4. Gerhard, G. S., Kauffman, E. J., Wang, X., Stewart, R., Moore, J. L., Kasales, C. J., Demidenko, E. & Cheng, K. C. 2002 Life span and senescent phenotype in two strains of Zebrafish (Danio rerio). Exp. Gerontol. 37, 1055-1068. (DOI 10.1016/S0531-5565(02)00088-8.)
5. Hamilton, W. D. 1966 The moulding of senescence by natural selection. J. Theor. Biol. 12, 12-45.
6. Holliday, R. 1995 Understanding aging. Cambridge University Press.
7. Jubb, A. 1971 New Nothobranchius species (Pisces, Cyprinodontidae) from Southeastern Rhodesia. J. Am. Killifish Assoc. 8, 12-19.
8. Kang, H. L., Benzer, S. & Min, K. T. 2002 Life extension in Drosophila by feeding a drug. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 99, 838-843. (DOI 10.1073/pnas.022631999.)
9. Kirkwood, T. B. 2002 Evolution of ageing. Mech. Ageing Dev. 123, 737-745. (DOI 10.1016/S0047-6374(01)00419-5.)
10. Kirkwood, T. B. & Holliday, R. 1979 The evolution of ageing and longevity. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 205, 531-546.
11. Liu, R. K. & Walford, R. L. 1966 Increased growth and life-span with lowered ambient temperature in the annual fish Cynolebias bellottii. Nature 212, 1277-1278.
12. Markofsky, J. & Perlmutter, A. 1972 Age at sexual maturity and its relationship to longevity in the male annual fish Nothobranchius guentheri. Exp. Gerontol. 7, 131-135.
13. Markofsky, J. & Perlmutter, A. 1973 Growth differences in sub-groups of varying longevities in a laboratory population of the male annual cyprinodont fish, Nothobranchius guentheri (Peters). Exp. Gerontol. 8, 62-73.
14. Nasevicius, A. & Ekker, S. C. 2000 Effective targeted gene knockdown in zebrafish. Nature Genet. 26, 216-220. (DOI 10.1038/79951.)
15. Rose, M. R. 1991 Evolutionary biology of aging. Oxford University Press.
16. Scheel, J.J. 1990 Atlas of killifishes of old world. New York: TFH Publications.
17. Smith, D. W. E. 1995 Evolution of longevity in mammals. Mech. Ageing Dev. 81, 51-60.
18. Stearns, S. C., Ackermann, M., Doebeli, M. & Kaiser, M. 2000 Experimental evolution of aging, growth, and reproduction in fruitflies. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 97, 3309-3313. (DOI 10.1073/pnas.060289597.)
19. Vaupel, J. W. (and 13 others) 1998 Biodemographic trajectories of longevity. Science 280, 855-860.
20. Williams, G. C. 1957 Pleiotropy, natural selection and the evolution of senescence. Evolution 11, 398-411.