Outbreeding Alleviates Senescence in Hermaphroditic Snails as Expected from the Mutation-Accumulation Theory

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 906-910

  Escobar, Juan S ^a   Jarne, Philippe ^a   Charmantier, Anne ^a   David, Patrice ^a  

^a CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

Author keywords

EVO_ECOL

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; MUTATION; OUTBRED STRAIN; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENTIATION DISORDER; SNAIL;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, OUTBRED STRAINS; DISORDERS OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; SNAILS;

GASTROPODA; PHYSA ACUTA;

EID: 45449102065     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.04.070     Document Type: Article

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