Invertebrate gerontology: the age mutations of Caenorhabditis elegans.

Abstract excerpt

Ageing is a complex phenomenon which remains a major challenge to modern biology. Although the evolutionary biology of ageing is well understood, the mechanisms that limit lifespan are unknown. The isolation and analysis of single-gene mutations which extend lifespan (Age mutations) is likely to reveal processes which influence ageing. Caenorhabditis elegans is the only metazoan in which Age mutations have been...

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

• Share to Aging
• Share to Biological Evolution
• Share to Caenorhabditis elegans