The genetics of aging: a vertebrate perspective

PP Singh, BA Demmitt, RD Nath, A Brunet - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Aging negatively impacts vitality and health. Many genetic pathways that regulate aging
were discovered in invertebrates. However, the genetics of aging is more complex in …

Microbiome evolution during host aging

FDD Aleman, DR Valenzano - PLoS pathogens, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Commensal microbes and their multicellular eukaryotic hosts constitute a highly integrated
system—termed the holobiont [1]—which undergoes dynamic changes through time as it …

Reduced proteasome activity in the aging brain results in ribosome stoichiometry loss and aggregation

E Kelmer Sacramento, JM Kirkpatrick… - Molecular systems …, 2020 - embopress.org
A progressive loss of protein homeostasis is characteristic of aging and a driver of
neurodegeneration. To investigate this process quantitatively, we characterized proteome …

Preclinical models for drug discovery for metastatic disease

L Wakefield, S Agarwal, K Tanner - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Despite many advances, metastatic disease remains essentially uncurable. Thus, there is an
urgent need to better understand mechanisms that promote metastasis, drive tumor …

Vertebrate diapause preserves organisms long term through Polycomb complex members

CK Hu, W Wang, J Brind'Amour, PP Singh, GA Reeves… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Diapause is a state of suspended development that helps organisms survive extreme
environments. How diapause protects living organisms is largely unknown. Using the …

[HTML][HTML] Revamping the evolutionary theories of aging

AA Johnson, MN Shokhirev, B Shoshitaishvili - Ageing research reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Radical lifespan disparities exist in the animal kingdom. While the ocean quahog can
survive for half a millennium, the mayfly survives for less than 48 h. The evolutionary …

[HTML][HTML] Transcriptomes of aging brain, heart, muscle, and spleen from female and male African turquoise killifish

A Xu, BB Teefy, RJ Lu, S Nozownik, AM Tyers… - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
The African turquoise killifish is an emerging vertebrate model organism with great potential
for aging research due to its naturally short lifespan. Thus far, turquoise killifish aging …

Rapid and precise genome engineering in a naturally short-lived vertebrate

CN Bedbrook, RD Nath, R Nagvekar, K Deisseroth… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
The African turquoise killifish is a powerful vertebrate system to study complex phenotypes
at scale, including aging and age-related disease. Here, we develop a rapid and precise …

Extremely rapid maturation of a wild African annual fish

M Vrtílek, J Žák, M Pšenička, M Reichard - Current Biology, 2018 - cell.com
Ephemeral habitats can impose challenging conditions for population persistence. Survival
strategies in these environments can range from high dispersal capacity to the evolution of …

Nothobranchius furzeri, an 'instant' fish from an ephemeral habitat

M Reichard, M Polačik - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
The turquoise killifish, Nothobranchius furzeri, is a promising vertebrate model in ageing
research and an emerging model organism in genomics, regenerative medicine …