Genetic variation for life span, resistance to paraquat, and spontaneous activity in unselected populations of Drosophila melanogaster: Implications for transgenic rescue of life span

Mechanisms of Ageing and Development

Volumn 128, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 486-493

  Khazaeli, Aziz A ^a   Nuzhdin, Sergey V ^b   Curtsinger, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Life span; Paraquat resistance; Spontaneous activity; Strain specificity

Indexed keywords

OXIDIZING AGENT; PARAQUAT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; LIFESPAN; MALE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANTIOXIDANTS; DDT; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; GENOTYPE; LONGEVITY; MALE; OXIDANTS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARAQUAT; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DENSITY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; TIME FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 34548321775     PISSN: 00476374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mad.2007.06.005     Document Type: Article

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