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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Trends Cell Biol. 2009 Aug 31;19(10):487–494. doi: 10.1016/j.tcb.2009.07.007

Table 1.

Organisms in which autophagy has been directly linked to the control of life span.

Organism Form of autophagy Representative Refs
Saccharomyces cerevisiae (yeast) macroautophagy [28]
Caenorhabditis elegans (nematode) macroautophagy [7, 9, 23, 25–27]
Drosophila melanogaster (insect) macroautophagy [22, 24]