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The demography of slow aging in male and female Drosophila mutant for the insulin-receptor substrate homologue chico.
Aging cell - 1 Oct 2002
Tu Meng-Ping, Epstein Diane, Tatar Marc
Abstract excerpt
Hypomorphic mutants affecting the Drosophila insulin/IGF signal pathway are reported to increase longevity in females but not in males. To understand this sex-difference, we conducted a large-scale demographic study with three new isogenic strains of alleles at chico, the insulin-receptor substrate homologue. We verify that female dwarf homozygotes (ch1/ch1) and normal-sized heterozygotes (ch1/+) are long-lived,...
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