Sex and lifespan linked in worms: A family of sugar-like molecules controls both
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 12:21
in Biology & Nature
A group of scientists who set out to study sex pheromones in a tiny worm found that the same family of pheromones also controls a stage in the worms' life cycle, the long-lived dauer larva.
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