title: Aging: why do organisms live too long?
abstract: Fruit flies selected to reproduce on the fifth day of adult life for many generations remarkably keep on living for six weeks, showing no change in lifespan. A mutation-accumulation experiment suggests that the same genes confer high early-life fitness and long life.
authors.affiliation: Ageing Research Group, Department of Animal Ecology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. Electronic address: Alexei.Maklakov@ebc.uu.se.
authors.forename: Alexei A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Maklakov
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D008136:Longevity / Q000235:genetics*; D008297:Male; D009154:Mutation