Luisa Maria Jaimes-Nino, Jürgen Heinze, Jan Oettler
Lifelong continuous reproduction, late-life investment into female sexuals, a short phase of senescence, and reproductive death characterize the life history of Cardiocondyla obscurior ant queens.
David Willemsen, Rongfeng Cui ... Dario Riccardo Valenzano
Population genetics in turquoise killifish wild populations reveals how small population size and genetic drift determine the accumulation of deleterious gene variants leading to short lifespan.
As worms age reduced glutathione together with increased ferrous iron increases frailty and leads to ferroptosis, which is amenable to therapeutic intervention.
Ageing is broadly accepted as a by-product of evolution, as thus, models allowing to conceive ageing as an adaptive force of evolution could show significant importance at a time of biogerontology mostly aiming at curing ageing.
Jacob M Garrigues, Brian V Tsu ... Amy E Pasquinelli
Helitron transposable elements, by providing high density transcription factor binding sites upstream of host genes, have diversified the heat shock response within and among Caenorhabditis species.