The genetics of gender and life span
Open Access
- 1 January 2009
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Biology
- Vol. 8 (4) , 38
- https://doi.org/10.1186/jbiol141
Abstract
Several possible and potentially overlapping genetic mechanisms have been suggested to explain differences in life span between males and females. Two recent papers in BMC Evolutionary Biology on the effects of inbreeding provide additional insight into the genetic architecture underlying life span differences between genders in two different insects.Keywords
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