Drosophila aging 2005/06
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Aging in Drosophila.
Flies of the genus Drosophila, particularly D. melanogaster, have been mainstays of biological research on aging for more than 80 years. However, what was striking for most of those years was how little concrete progress was made on the problem of aging using the normally powerful Drosophila model system. To be sure, a great deal of longitudinal information was accumulated about Drosophila agin...
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عنوان ژورنال: Experimental Gerontology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0531-5565
DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2006.10.013