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Abstract
Two recent studies identify how sex-specific pheromonal factors in flies and worms alter lifespan through metabolic pathways that are shared with mammals. Sex differences in human lifespans imply nonautonomous effects modulated by sex-specific gene-environment interactions that could still include pheromonal mechanisms.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 24485449 PMCID: PMC3988832 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.01.028
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cell ISSN: 0092-8674 Impact factor: 41.582