Sex-Specific Aging in Flies, Worms, and Missing Great-Granddads

作者:Finch Caleb E*; Tower John
来源:Cell, 2014, 156(3): 398-399.
DOI:10.1016/j.cell.2014.01.028

摘要

Two recent studies identify how sex-specific pheromonal factors in flies and worms alter lifespan through metabolic pathways that are shared with mammals. Sex differences in human lifespans imply nonautonomous effects modulated by sex-specific gene-environment interactions that could still include pheromonal mechanisms.

  • 出版日期2014-1-30