Aging theory holds that populations exposed to higher environmentally imposed mortality evolve faster aging. It has been postulated that the presence of parasites causing high extrinsic mortality may trigger an inducible acceleration of host aging. I tested this hypothesis in a detailed and systematic investigation of how the aging patterns of genetically identical Caenorhabditis elegans can be altered by human opportunistic pathogen or innocuous strains of Escherichia coli. My results suggest that pathogenic bacteria trigger a re-allocation of resources from body maintenance to reproduction and antimicrobial defense, causing faster accumulation of damage and thus faster aging. I also observed that mortality increased at a slower rate in ol...
Just as any organism, us humans are subjected to the process of ageing. As we grow older, it becomes...
The nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans has become a model system for the analysis of the genetics ...
Determining the relationship between individual life-history traits and population dynamics is an es...
This work was supported by a Wellcome Trust Strategic Award (098565/Z/12/Z) and an EU grant (FP6-518...
The aim of this work is to identify the biological mechanisms of ageing, which remain poorly underst...
nuture (or a diet of E. coli)? The first genes extending lifespan were identified in the nematode Ca...
Salmonella has been known to cause illnesses across the United States. The severity of the infection...
A widely appreciated conclusion from evolutionary theory is that senescence (aging) is of no adaptiv...
Aging is a near ubiquitous phenomenon prevalent across evolutionary lineages from single-celled orga...
Determining the relationship between individual life-history traits and population dynamics is an es...
The nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans has emerged as one of the premier model systems for ageing ...
The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans has become a model system for the study of the genetic basis of ...
The aging process in semelparous and iteroparous species is different, but how different? Death in s...
Many animal species live in close association with commensal and symbiotic microbes (microbiota). Re...
We monitored survival and reproduction of 1000 individuals of Caenorhabditis elegans wild type (N2) ...
Just as any organism, us humans are subjected to the process of ageing. As we grow older, it becomes...
The nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans has become a model system for the analysis of the genetics ...
Determining the relationship between individual life-history traits and population dynamics is an es...
This work was supported by a Wellcome Trust Strategic Award (098565/Z/12/Z) and an EU grant (FP6-518...
The aim of this work is to identify the biological mechanisms of ageing, which remain poorly underst...
nuture (or a diet of E. coli)? The first genes extending lifespan were identified in the nematode Ca...
Salmonella has been known to cause illnesses across the United States. The severity of the infection...
A widely appreciated conclusion from evolutionary theory is that senescence (aging) is of no adaptiv...
Aging is a near ubiquitous phenomenon prevalent across evolutionary lineages from single-celled orga...
Determining the relationship between individual life-history traits and population dynamics is an es...
The nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans has emerged as one of the premier model systems for ageing ...
The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans has become a model system for the study of the genetic basis of ...
The aging process in semelparous and iteroparous species is different, but how different? Death in s...
Many animal species live in close association with commensal and symbiotic microbes (microbiota). Re...
We monitored survival and reproduction of 1000 individuals of Caenorhabditis elegans wild type (N2) ...
Just as any organism, us humans are subjected to the process of ageing. As we grow older, it becomes...
The nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans has become a model system for the analysis of the genetics ...
Determining the relationship between individual life-history traits and population dynamics is an es...