«These results also confirm that, because C. elegans uses the prostaglandin system to
regulate reproductive events, the tiny worm is a suitable model system for identifying related biological processes that may control fertility and reproduction in higher organisms.»
Their slow mode of life seems insufficient to support one
big reproductive event, unlike other coleoid cephalopods,» says Henk - Jan Hoving, who is working for the Cluster of Excellence «Future Ocean» at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany.
, or even embarrassing (of course you wore white pants to school that day), but a new study published in the journal BMC Medicine says there are links between
major reproductive events in a woman's life and her long - term health.
Her research interests include girls» psychological adaptation to pubertal change, biosocial aspects of
female reproductive events, and development of biologically and socially at risk children and adolescents.
One way to control the spread of these diseases is to tamper with
the reproductive events that follow this mosquito's blood meal.
It has been previously suggested that the greater risk is largely due to depressive episodes that are tied to
reproductive events, such as perinatal depression and premenstrual dysphoric disorder, when hormones are in greater flux.
By using eggs and ejaculates from many individuals in
each reproductive event, the authors provided realistic estimates of male reproductive fitness compared to the population.
«Previously studies have looked at
some reproductive events and their relationship to death, but not to longevity per se,» says Shadyab, who reported the results in the American Journal of Public Health.