Quantitative and molecular genetic analyses of mutations increasing Drosophila life span

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1-21

  Magwire, Michael M ^a,c   Yamamoto, Akihiko ^a   Carbone, Mary Anna ^a   Roshina, Natalia V ^b   Symonenko, Alexander V ^b   Pasyukova, Elena G ^b   Morozova, Tatiana V ^a,b   Mackay, Trudy F C ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUSHROOM BODY PROTEIN; POLYCHAETOID PROTEIN; PROTEIN ESG; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXO; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA INTEGRATION; DROSOPHILA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; INSECT GENETICS; INTRON; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PLEIOTROPY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; AGING; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HUMAN; MUTATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DROSOPHILA; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MALE; MUTATION; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 77957372576     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001037     Document Type: Article

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