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Life-history connections to rates of aging in terrestrial vertebrates

The actuarial senescence (i.e., the rate of increase in adult mortality with age) was related to body mass, development period, and age at sexual maturity across 124 taxonomic families of terrestrial vertebrates. Model selection based on Akaike's information criterion values adjusted for small...

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Main Author: Ricklefs, Robert E.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: National Academy of Sciences 2010
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2890449/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20479246
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1005862107
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