NEW EFFORT WILL CLARIFY AGING DIFFERENCES IN MALES AND FEMALES OF MANY SPECIES
Researchers from the University of Kansas will join a multi-institution effort to better grasp mechanisms and evolutionary history of sex differences in aging across an array of animal species.
The research project, organized as the IISAGE Biology Integration Institute, is funded by a five-year, $12.5 million award from the National Science Foundation (of which about $1 million will come to KU).
“This project has its genesis in the observation that the average lifespan of males and females is often strikingly different, but the extent and direction of these differences varies widely among animal species,” said Jamie Walters, associate professor of ecology & evolutionary biology, who is leading the KU portion of the grant work.