Age-related degeneration of the egg-laying system promotes matricidal hatching in Caenorhabditis elegans

Aging Cell

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 544-553

  Pickett, Christopher L ^a   Kornfeld, Kerry ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Bag of worms; C. elegans; Matricidal hatching; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; EAT-2 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATION; DIET RESTRICTION; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HATCHING; LONGEVITY; MALE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATRICIDAL HATCHING; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VULVA; AGING; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; HERMAPHRODITE; METABOLISM; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; SELF FERTILIZATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL; TIME;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

AGING; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; FEMALE; HERMAPHRODITIC ORGANISMS; LONGEVITY; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; OVUM; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SELF-FERTILIZATION; SEROTONIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; VULVA;

EID: 84880509865     PISSN: 14749718     EISSN: 14749726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acel.12079     Document Type: Article

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