Investigating the Relationship Between Circadian Rhythm and Longevity in Mammals

Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2024/11/investigating-the-relationship-between-circadian-rhythm-and-longevity-in-mammals/

A range of interesting research delves into the relevance of circadian rhythm to aging, from both (a) the perspective of how the regulation of circadian rhythm becomes dysfunctional with age, and (b) the evolutionary perspective of how differences in circadian rhythm may be relevant to differences in species life span. The research noted here falls into the second camp, looking at the evolution of genes that regulate circadian rhythm. The data is suggestive of the importance of circadian rhythm to the evolution of longevity in a species, but strangely, this importance is not universal across the varieties of mammal.

The relationship between genomic characteristics and species traits is of paramount importance…

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