Age-specific mortality rates of reproducing and non-reproducing males of Drosophila melanogaster

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1556, 2004, Pages 2517-2522

  Miyo, Takahiro ^a   Charlesworth, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Cost of reproduction; Drosophila melanogaster; Gompertz function; Mortality levelling

Indexed keywords

AGING; FLY; MALE; MORTALITY; REPRODUCTIVE COST;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST OF REPRODUCTION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS BREEDING; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; COHORT STUDIES; CROSSES, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 17044387006     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2879     Document Type: Article

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