Asymmetry and the origins of ageing

Mechanisms of Ageing and Development

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 533-534

  Kirkwood, Thomas B L ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; TELOMERASE;

AGING; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BACTERIAL CELL; BUDDING; CAULOBACTER; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; GERONTOLOGY; HEART; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PODOSPORA ANSERINA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SENESCENCE; SOMATIC CELL; STEM CELL; TELOMERE; YEAST;

EID: 16244399543     PISSN: 00476374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mad.2005.02.001     Document Type: Editorial

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