Quantitative genetic tests of recent senescence theory: Age-specific mortality and male fertility in Drosophila melanogaster

Heredity

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 546-556

  Snoke, M S ^a,b   Promislow, D E L ^a,b  

^a University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antagonistic pleiotropy; Drosophila melanogaster; Fertility; Mortality; Mutation accumulation; Senescence

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIATION; MORTALITY; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; SENESCENCE;

AGE; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FERTILITY; GENETICS; MALE; MORTALITY; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FERTILITY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MORTALITY; MUTATION;

ANIMALIA; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILIDAE; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0348252202     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6800353     Document Type: Article

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