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Drosophila melanogaster p53 has developmental stage-specific and sex-specific effects on adult life span indicative of sexual antagonistic pleiotropy.
Aging - 27 Oct 2009
Waskar Morris, Landis Gary N, Shen Jie, Curtis Christina, Tozer Kevin, Abdueva Diana, Skvortsov Dmitriy, Tavaré Simon, Tower John
Abstract excerpt
Truncated and mutant forms ofp53 affect life span in Drosophila, nematodes and mice, however the role of wild-type p53 in aging remains unclear. Here conditional over-expression of both wild-type and mutant p53 transgenes indicated that, in adult flies, p53 limits life span in females but favors...
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