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Higher expression of somatic repair genes in long-lived ant queens than workers

Understanding why organisms senesce is a fundamental question in biology. One common explanation is that senescence results from an increase in macromolecular damage with age. The tremendous variation in lifespan between genetically identical queen and worker ants, ranging over an order of magnitude...

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Autores principales: Lucas, Eric R., Privman, Eyal, Keller, Laurent
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Impact Journals LLC 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5076446/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27617474
http://dx.doi.org/10.18632/aging.101027