Late life: A new frontier for physiology

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 869-878

  Rose, Michael R ^a   Rauser, Casandra L ^a   Mueller, Laurence D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCE; AGING; DEMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FERTILITY; SURVIVAL;

AGING; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; LONGEVITY; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

AGING; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; LONGEVITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 27744472940     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/498179     Document Type: Review

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