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Fly lifespan is boosted by early exposure to bacteria, but curbed by presence late in life
Aug 18, 2004
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"I wasn't surprised, but I was excited," Daniel Promislow of the University of Georgia said of the results. "I think this is just the beginning. A few years from now, we're going to look back and have a lot of really interesting data on the roles that parasites play" in organism lifespan, said Promislow, who was not involved in the study.
Ted Brummel of Sam Houston State University in Texas and his former colleagues at CalTech raised