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Inbreeding removes sex differences in lifespan in a population of Drosophila melanogaster

Sex differences in ageing rates and lifespan are common in nature, and an enduring puzzle for evolutionary biology. One possibility is that sex-specific mortality rates may result from recessive deleterious alleles in ‘unguarded’ heterogametic X or Z sex chromosomes (the unguarded X hypothesis). Emp...

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Publicado en:Biol Lett
Main Authors: Carazo, Pau, Green, Jared, Sepil, Irem, Pizzari, Tommaso, Wigby, Stuart
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Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: The Royal Society 2016
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4938057/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27354712
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0337
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