Epigenetic gambling and epigenetic drift as an antagonistic pleiotropic mechanism of aging

Aging Cell

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 761-764

  Martin, George M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Antagonistic pleiotropy; Bet hedging; Cell selection; Epigenetic drift; Epigenetic gambling; Epigenetics; Evolutionary biology; Stochastic mechanisms

Indexed keywords

AGING; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GERONTOLOGY; HUMAN; LIFE TABLE; LIFESPAN; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; SOMATIC MUTATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL RATE; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

AGING; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR;

EID: 74049087181     PISSN: 14749718     EISSN: 14749726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-9726.2009.00515.x     Document Type: Note

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