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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Main Author: Dartnell, Vicki June
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27412