Article
<i>C. elegans</i> hermaphrodites undergo semelparous reproductive death
2020-11-16
Abstract excerpt
Ageing in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is unusual in terms of the severity and early onset of senescent pathology, particularly affecting organs involved in reproduction (Ezcurra et al., 2018; Garigan et al., 2002; Herndon et al., 2002). In post-reproductive C. elegans hermaphrodites, intestinal biomass is converted into yolk leading to intestinal atrophy and yolk steatosis (Ezcurra et al., 2018; Sornda e...
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- Literature Corpus work
- d6bbeac3-1750-5b42-ab19-fc2453c9ca77
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.11.16.384255
