Evolutionary conservation of regulated longevity assurance mechanisms

Table 1 Details of transcript profile datasets compared in this study

Organism	Genotypes compared	Sex	Age at sampling	Number of arrays per genotype	Reference
C. elegans	daf-2 vs daf-16; daf-2*	Hermaphrodite	1 day^†	10	[24]
D. melanogaster	chico¹/+ vs +/+	Female	7 days	5	This study
M. musculus	Prop-1^df/df vs +/+	Male	3 months	3	[26]
M. musculus	Ghrhr^lit/lit vs +/+	Male	3 months	3	[26]

* Data from five comparisons using either daf-2(m577) or daf-2(e1370) were pooled, giving a total of ten comparisons. daf-16 allele used: mgDf50. All strains also contained the temperature-sensitive sterile mutation glp-4(bn2). ^†Days of adulthood.

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