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Variation in actuarial senescence does not reflect life span variation across mammals

The concept of actuarial senescence (defined here as the increase in mortality hazards with age) is often confounded with life span duration, which obscures the relative role of age-dependent and age-independent processes in shaping the variation in life span. We use the opportunity afforded by the...

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Published in:PLoS Biol
Main Authors: Péron, Guillaume, Lemaître, Jean-François, Ronget, Victor, Tidière, Morgane, Gaillard, Jean-Michel
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2019
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6760812/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31518381
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000432
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