Modalities of gene action predicted by the classical evolutionary biological theory of aging

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1100, Issue , 2007, Pages 14-20

  Martin, George M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive expression; Adaptive silencing; Antagonistic pleiotropy; Evolutionary biology of aging; Longevity assurance; Nonadaptive loss of expression; Nonadaptive loss of silencing; Paradoxical antagonistic pleiotropy; Somatic mutation

Indexed keywords

AGING; CONFERENCE PAPER; EPIGENETICS; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HUMAN; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LONGEVITY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PLEIOTROPY; SOMATIC MUTATION; STATISTICS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MUTATION; REVIEW;

AGING; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 34249729839     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1395.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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