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Senescence and Sexual Selection in a Pelagic Copepod

The ecology of senescence in marine zooplankton is not well known. Here we demonstrate senescence effects in the marine copepod Oithona davisae and show how sex and sexual selection accelerate the rate of ageing in the males. We show that adult mortality increases and male mating capacity and female...

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Hauptverfasser: Ceballos, Sara, Kiørboe, Thomas
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: Public Library of Science 2011
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3077418/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21533149
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0018870
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