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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Exp Gerontol. 2010 Dec 25;46(5):363–368. doi: 10.1016/j.exger.2010.12.002

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Net allocation of resources acquired from dietary yeast to adult somatic tissue and eggs from females maintained on restricted-diet (4% yeast, 10% sugar) or full-diet (16% yeast, 10% sugar). Redrawn from O’Brien et al [15]. Females on the restricted diet were 37% longer lived (based on median lifespan) than those on restricted diet and produced 11-fold less eggs. A) Nitrogen. B) Carbon. C) Essential amino acids (list). D) Competitive resource allocation and direct costs of reproduction are complementary mechanisms for the trade-off between reproduction and lifespan (Redrawn from [16]).