Worms were kept at 20C and lifespan monitored by counting on alternate days.
An observed inverse correlation between bacterial counts with lifespan (Gomez et al, 2012; Portal-Celhay et al, 2012) and mortality rate (Baeriswyl et al, 2010) suggests that colonization contributes to aging.
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As described for lifespan analysis, worms were counted as censored in case of internal hatching, crawling off, and bursting.
We also assayed daily fecundity across the adult lifespan of flies by counting the number of eggs laid by individual females every day, from the day of emergence until death (Fig. 3a,b).
Assuming a homogeneous distribution of CTCs, the expected number of CTCs was scaled by the total CTC count obtained with the cell lifespan model: where Finally, the observed CTC count was a random sampling from a negative binomial distribution with a mean of λ.
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Adult flies that died within 48 h of eclosion were counted but excluded from lifespan analysis.
In the present study, we examined accuracy (directional enumeration error), variance (threshold) and speed of visual counting in observers over the lifespan, from 21 to 85.
