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Experimental evolution of aging in a bacterium

BACKGROUND: Aging refers to a decline in reproduction and survival with increasing age. According to evolutionary theory, aging evolves because selection late in life is weak and mutations exist whose deleterious effects manifest only late in life. Whether the assumptions behind this theory are fulf...

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Main Authors: Ackermann, Martin, Schauerte, Alexandra, Stearns, Stephen C, Jenal, Urs
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Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2174458/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17662151
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-7-126
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