Fertility/longevity trade-offs under limiting-male conditions in mating populations of Caenorhabditis elegans

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 759-763

  Wu, Deqing ^a,c   Tedesco, Patricia M ^a   Phillips, Patrick C ^b   Johnson, Thomas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antagonistic pleiotropy; Demography; Evolutionary theory; Fertility; Genetics; Longevity; Nematodes

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; FERTILITY; HERMAPHRODITIC SPECIES; LONGEVITY; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; FERTILITY; HERMAPHRODITIC ORGANISMS; LONGEVITY; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEMATODA;

EID: 84865735436     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: 18736815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2012.06.010     Document Type: Article

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