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Slow aging during insect reproductive diapause: why butterflies, grasshoppers and flies are like worms.
Experimental gerontology - 1 Apr 2001
Tatar M, Yin C
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Diapause is a state of arrested development accompanied by physiology for somatic persistence. Diapause is common in many invertebrates and is familiar to biogerontology in the context of Caenorhabditis elegans dauer. Among insects, diapause may occur in embryos, larvae, pupae or adults. At the adult stage, reproductive diapause arrests development of oogenesis, vitellogenesis, accessory gland activity, and...
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