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Context-dependent genetic architecture of Drosophila life span.
PLoS biology - 1 Mar 2020
Huang Wen, Campbell Terry, Carbone Mary Anna, Jones W Elizabeth, Unselt Desiree, Anholt Robert R H, Mackay Trudy F C
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Understanding the genetic basis of variation in life span is a major challenge that is difficult to address in human populations. Evolutionary theory predicts that alleles affecting natural variation in life span will have properties that enable them to persist in populations at intermediate frequencies, such as late-life-specific deleterious effects, antagonistic pleiotropic effects on early and late-age fitness...
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