Heritability of life span is largely sex limited in Drosophila.

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Heritability of life span is largely sex limited in Drosophila.

The American naturalist - 1 Nov 2013

Lehtovaara Anne, Schielzeth Holger, Flis Ilona, Friberg Urban

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Males and females differ with respect to life span and rate of aging in most animal species. Such sexual dimorphism can be associated with a complex genetic architecture, where only part of the genetic variation is shared between the sexes. However, the extent to which this is true for life span and aging is not known, because studies of life span have given contradictory results and aging has not been studied...

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Aging
Animals
Drosophila melanogaster
Evolution, Molecular
Genetic Variation
Longevity
Sex Characteristics

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PMID: 24107372
DOI: 10.1086/673296

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