Physiology: Still pondering an age-old question

Science

Volumn 318, Issue 5854, 2007, Pages 1255-1256

  Flatt, Thomas ^a   Promislow, Daniel E L ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGING; ALLELE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SHORT SURVEY;

AGING; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; FERTILITY; GENES; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MUTATION; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 36448981352     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1147491     Document Type: Short Survey

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