Leg impairments elicit graded and sex-specific demographic responses in the tephritid fruit fly Anastrepha ludens

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 541-545

  Carey, James R ^a,b   Liedo, Pablo ^c   Müller, Hans Georg ^a   Wang, Jane Ling ^a   Yang, Wenjing ^a   Molleman, Freerk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging   (United States)

^c EL COLEGIO DE LA FRONTERA SUR   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Age specific survival; Demography; Epidemiology; Insect reproduction; Leg amputation; Life table; Morbidity; Mortality; Population genetics; Sex specific disability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DROSOPHILA; EGG LAYING; EGG PRODUCTION; FEMALE; LEG AMPUTATION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONGEVITY; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL RATE; TEPHRITIDAE;

AMPUTATION; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; LONGEVITY; MALE; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TEPHRITIDAE;

ANASTREPHA LUDENS; HEXAPODA; TEPHRITIDAE;

EID: 67650617691     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2009.05.006     Document Type: Article

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