Functional significance of allelic variation at methuselah, an aging gene in Drosophila

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Paaby, Annalise B ^a   Schmidt, Paul S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; METHUSELAH PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; METHUSELAH PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; MALE; NATURAL POPULATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; WILD TYPE; ALLELE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

AGING; ALLELES; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; LONGEVITY; MODELS, GENETIC; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENOTYPE; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 44849103119     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001987     Document Type: Article

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