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Sex differences in the genetic architecture of lifespan in a seed beetle: extreme inbreeding extends male lifespan
BACKGROUND: Sex differences in lifespan are ubiquitous throughout the animal kingdom but the causes underlying this phenomenon remain poorly understood. Several explanations based on asymmetrical inheritance patterns (sex chromosomes or mitochondrial DNA) have been proposed, but these ideas have rar...
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BioMed Central
2009
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2657122/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19200350 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-9-33 |