A theory of age-dependent mutation and senescence

Genetics

Volumn 179, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2061-2073

  Moorad, Jacob A ^a   Promislow, Daniel E L ^a  

^a University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGING; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; GENETIC MODEL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MUTANT; MUTATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SENESCENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; LONGEVITY;

AGING; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION;

EID: 55749090979     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.108.088526     Document Type: Article

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