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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.
DOX itself, and overexpression of control genes such as Escherichia coli lacZ, have no detectable effects on lifespan [ 1].
We conclude that under these conditions, altered Pgm expression does not have a detectable effect on adult Drosophila 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.
In one well studied set of five replicate control (B) and long-lived (O) strains, lifespan was doubled and was correlated with increased stress-resistance and increased glycogen and lipid stores [ 27, 28].