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SUBMITTER: Lucas ER
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5076446 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lucas Eric R ER Privman Eyal E Keller Laurent L
Aging 20160901 9
Understanding why organisms senesce is a fundamental question in biology. One common explanation is that senescence results from an increase in macromolecular damage with age. The tremendous variation in lifespan between genetically identical queen and worker ants, ranging over an order of magnitude, provides a unique system to study how investment into processes of somatic maintenance and macromolecular repair influence lifespan. Here we use RNAseq to compare patterns of expression of genes inv ...[more]