Vertebrate Ageing: An Evolutionary Process with a Genetic Basis?

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Gaillard, Jean Michel ^a   Bonenfant, Christophe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; VERTEBRATE;

AGING; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; VERTEBRATES;

MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 38849141559     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.12.013     Document Type: Short Survey

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