Journal article
Inbreeding removes sex differences in lifespan in a population of Drosophila melanogaster
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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). Empirical evidence for this is, however, limited. Here, we test a fundamental prediction of the unguarded X hypothesis in Drosophila melanogaster, namely that inbreeding shortens lifespan more in fema...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Royal Society Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Biology Letters Journal website
- Publication date:
- 2016-06-28
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-06-07
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- EISSN:
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1744-957X
- ISSN:
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1744-9561
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:626329
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uuid:87cae05e-c4d6-4d1a-a578-5e00b4c429cf
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- pubs:626329
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626329
- Deposit date:
- 2016-06-07
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- Copyright holder:
- Carazo et al
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
- © 2016 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.
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