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SUBMITTER: Maures TJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4126796 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Maures Travis J TJ Booth Lauren N LN Benayoun Bérénice A BA Izrayelit Yevgeniy Y Schroeder Frank C FC Brunet Anne A
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20131129 6170
How an individual's longevity is affected by the opposite sex is still largely unclear. In the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, the presence of males accelerated aging and shortened the life span of individuals of the opposite sex (hermaphrodites), including long-lived or sterile hermaphrodites. The male-induced demise could occur without mating and required only exposure of hermaphrodites to medium in which males were once present. Such communication through pheromones or other diffusible subst ...[more]