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Chromosome dosage as a life span determinant in Caenorhabiditis elegans.
Mechanisms of ageing and development - 1 Jan 2000
Hartman Phil S, Ishii Naoaki
Abstract excerpt
Caenorhabiditis elegans males live longer than hermaphrodites when cultured individually. Since hermaphrodites contain a pair of X chromosomes (XX) and males are XO (there is no Y chromosome in C. elegans), we questioned whether chromosomal differences per se might impact life span. The use of mutations in the sex-determination genes tra-1 and her-1 allowed us to uncouple sexual phenotype from the normal X...
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