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What fecundity patterns indicate about aging and longevity: insights from Drosophila studies.
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences - 1 Jun 2003
Novoseltsev Vassily N, Novoseltseva Janna A, Boyko Sergei I, Yashin Anatoli I
Abstract excerpt
The age pattern of fecundity is represented as a result of a superposition of two processes: the genetic fecundity program encoded in the organism's reproductive machinery and senescence of the reproductive system. Accumulation of oxidative damage produces the energy decline, which could potentially be used in reproduction. As a result, the age-declining process arises in the reproductive machinery at a critical...
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