Rates of Mortality in Populations of Caenorhabditis elegans

Rates of Mortality in Populations of Caenorhabditis elegans

Various comments on studies of nematodes, Caenorhabditis elegans, support and criticize findings that more rapid rates of mortality increase with age in heterogeneous populations than in genetically homogeneous groups. A reply is included.

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Veröffentlicht in:Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 1994-11, Vol.266 (5186), p.826-828
Hauptverfasser: Vaupel, James W., Johnson, Thomas E., Lithgow, Gordon J., Curtsinger, J. W., Fukui, H. H., Xiu, L., Khazaeli, A., Pletcher, S., Wang, Jane-Ling, Muller, Hans-Georg, Capra, William B., Carey, James R.
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Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Acceleration
Animals
Attrition (Research Studies)
Behavioral genetics
Caenorhabditis elegans
Caenorhabditis elegans - physiology
Censored data
Censorship
Death
Drosophila
Drosophila - physiology
Female
Genotypes
Gompertz curves
Immigration
Least Squares Statistics
Male
Mathematics
Mortality
Mortality Rate
Nematodes
Nonparametric Statistics
Patient outcomes
Performance Based Assessment
Population genetics
Resistance (Psychology)
Statistical Analysis
Statistical Significance
Technical Comments
Worms
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Zusammenfassung:Various comments on studies of nematodes, Caenorhabditis elegans, support and criticize findings that more rapid rates of mortality increase with age in heterogeneous populations than in genetically homogeneous groups. A reply is included.
ISSN:0036-8075
1095-9203
DOI:10.1126/science.7973640