Can postfertile life stages evolve as an anticancer mechanism?

Why a postfertile stage has evolved in females of some species has puzzled evolutionary biologists for over 50 years. We propose that existing adaptive explanations have underestimated in their formulation an important parameter operating both at the specific and the individual levels: the balance b...

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Published in:PLoS Biol
Main Authors: Thomas, Frédéric, Giraudeau, Mathieu, Renaud, François, Ujvari, Beata, Roche, Benjamin, Pujol, Pascal, Raymond, Michel, Lemaitre, Jean-François, Alvergne, Alexandra
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2019
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6917346/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31805037
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000565
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