Natural selection and immortality

Biogerontology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 503-516

  Danchin, Antoine ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Degradosome; Isoaspartate; Metamorphosis; Paleome; Persistent genes

Indexed keywords

POLYPHOSPHATE;

AGING; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; BIOPHYSICS; CELL AGING; CELL DIVISION; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; METAMORPHOSIS; NATURAL SELECTION; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; DNA REPLICATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MODELS, GENETIC; NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION, GENETIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67649667312     PISSN: 13895729     EISSN: 15736768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10522-008-9171-5     Document Type: Article

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