Inbreeding removes sex differences in lifespan in a population of Drosophila melanogaster
Sex differences in ageing rates and lifespan are common in nature, and an enduring puzzle for evolutionary biology. One possibility is that sex-specific mortality rates may result from recessive deleterious alleles in “unguarded” heterogametic X or Z sex chromosomes (the unguarded X hypothesis). Emp...
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Royal Society
2016
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