Sexual activity and reproduction delay ageing in a mammal [1]

Current Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Dammann, Philip ^a,b   Burda, Hynek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL; FEMALE; LETTER; LONGEVITY; MALE; MOLE RAT; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

AGING; ANIMALS; FEMALE; LONGEVITY; MALE; MOLE RATS; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 32944462733     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.02.012     Document Type: Letter

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