Age specificity of inbreeding load in Drosophila melanogaster and implications for the evolution of late-life mortality plateaus

Genetics

Volumn 177, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 587-595

  Reynolds, Rose M ^a   Temiyasathit, Sara ^a   Reedy, Melissa M ^a   Ruedi, Elizabeth A ^a   Drnevich, Jenny M ^a   Leips, Jeff ^b   Hughes, Kimberly A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE FREQUENCY; HOMOZYGOSITY; INBREEDING; LIFESPAN; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL MATURITY;

AGING; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; INBREEDING; LONGEVITY; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS);

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 35048822940     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.106.070078     Document Type: Article

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