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C. elegans feeding defective mutants have shorter body lengths and increased autophagy

BACKGROUND: Mutations that cause feeding defects in the nematode C. elegans are known to increase life span. Here we show that feeding defective mutants also have a second general trait in common, namely that they are small. RESULTS: Our measurements of the body lengths of a variety of feeding defec...

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Autores principales: Mörck, Catarina, Pilon, Marc
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1559592/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16884547
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-213X-6-39