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Drosophila foxo acts in males to cause sexual-dimorphism in tissue-specific p53 life span effects.
Experimental gerontology - 1 Feb 2010
Shen Jie, Tower John
Abstract excerpt
Sex-specific selective pressures are hypothesized to lead to sexually antagonistic gene functions that contribute to phenotypes such as aging and cancer. However, relatively little is known about the identity of such genes and possible mechanisms. Here we report that nervous system-specific over-expression of wild-type p53 in Drosophila caused decreased life span in males and increased life span in females. In...
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