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Phenotypic Covariance of Longevity, Immunity and Stress Resistance in the Caenorhabditis Nematodes

BACKGROUND: Ageing, immunity and stresstolerance are inherent characteristics of all organisms. In animals, these traits are regulated, at least in part, by forkhead transcription factors in response to upstream signals from the Insulin/Insulin–like growth factor signalling (IIS) pathway. In the nem...

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Autores principales: Amrit, Francis R. G., Boehnisch, Claudia M. L., May, Robin C.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2848519/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20369008
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0009978