Annual fishes of the genus Nothobarnchius as a model system for aging research

Aging Cell

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 223-233

  Genade, Tyrone ^a   Benedetti, Mauro ^b   Terzibasi, Eva ^a   Roncaglia, Paola ^b   Valenzano, Dario Riccardo ^a   Cattaneo, Antonino ^b,c   Cellerino, Alessandro ^a  

^a CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^b SISSA   (Italy)

^c Lay Line Genomics SpA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aging; Biomarkers; Comparative genomics; Nothobranchius

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; MICROSOMAL TRIGLYCERIDE TRANSFER PROTEIN; PROTEIN P66;

AFRICA; AGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; DRUG SCREENING; FISH; GENE ISOLATION; GENUS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; POND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEASON; SPECIES COMPARISON; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; EVOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SURVIVAL RATE;

NOTHOBRANCHIUS; NOTHOBRANCHIUS FURZERI; PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

AGING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 27744540845     PISSN: 14749718     EISSN: 14749726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-9726.2005.00165.x     Document Type: Review

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