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The Replica Set Method: A High-throughput Approach to Quantitatively Measure Caenorhabditis elegans Lifespan
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Genetics: influence of TOR kinase on lifespan in C. elegans
Tibor Vellai1, Krisztina Takacs-Vellai, Yue Zhang
1Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Fribourg 1700, Switzerland.
Nature
|December 12, 2003
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