Aging and protein synthesis : serine and leucine transfer RNA genes in Drosophila melanogaster
This thesis consists of two distinct parts. Part I describes preliminary studies undertaken to investigate whether defective tRNA molecules may be at least partially responsible for the general decrease in protein synthesis ability seen with advancing age. Part II describes the cloning of three...
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Language: | English |
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University of British Columbia
2010
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27412 |