Sex and lifespan linked in worms: A family of sugar-like molecules controls both

A group of scientists who set out to study sex pheromones in a tiny worm found that the same family of pheromones also controls a stage in the worms' life cycle, the long-lived dauer larva.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news136036770.html">Sex and lifespan linked in worms: A family of sugar-like molecules controls both</a></p> <p>A group of scientists who set out to study sex pheromones in a tiny worm found that the same family of pheromones also controls a stage in the worms' life cycle, the long-lived dauer larva.</p>