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The worm that lived: Evolution of rapid aging under high extrinsic mortality revisited

Organisms age because of the “selection shadow”—the decline of the force of natural selection with age. Seemingly straightforward corollary of this theory is the Medawar-Williams prediction, which maintains that increased extrinsic (non-aging) mortality will result in the evolution of accelerated ag...

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Main Authors: Chen, Hwei-yen, Maklakov, Alexei A
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: Landes Bioscience 2013
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3875642/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24778930
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.4161/worm.23704
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