Friday, August 3, 2012
Longer Lives of Females in DNA
Researchers studying the mitochondrial DNA of fruit flies have found that mutations in male DNA affecting how long they live and how fast they age are not continued to subsequent generations as only the female mitochondrial DNA is passed to offspring, providing a clue why females of many species consistently outlive males.
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