Lifelong heterogeneity in fecundity is insufficient to explain late-life fecundity plateaus in Drosophila melanogaster

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 40, Issue 8-9, 2005, Pages 660-670

  Rauser, Casandra L ^a,b   Abdel Aal, Yasmine ^a   Shieh, Jonathan A ^a   Suen, Christine W ^a   Mueller, Laurence D ^a   Rose, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Fecundity; Fecundity plateau; Heterogeneity; Late life; Mortality rate plateau

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; LIFE CYCLE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX ROLE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGING; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; FERTILITY; LONGEVITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OVIPOSITION;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 24644513933     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2005.06.006     Document Type: Article

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