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At seeps, geological processes causing fluid and gas seepage can last hundreds to millions of years, whereas hydrothermal vents often have a lifespan on the order of decades.
Kenyon, professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of California at San Francisco, is among the key contributors responsible for showing that a single gene, and subsequently many genes, can change an organism's lifespan.
The first is that Pgm Smight in fact contribute to the increased lifespan of the selected strains as a result of an increased or decreased activity, but that the effect on lifespan is too small to be detected in these assays.
Four years ago, her laboratory reported that killing germ cells increases the lifespan of worms by 60%, but only because, she stresses, it affects endocrine signalling and not because it prevents reproduction.
When O strains were taken off selection for several generations (back-selection), lifespan decreased and Pgm Sallele frequency was reduced to levels more like those in B strains.