Experimental evolution of aging in a bacterium

BACKGROUND: Aging refers to a decline in reproduction and survival with increasing age. According to evolutionary theory, aging evolves because selection late in life is weak and mutations exist whose deleterious effects manifest only late in life. Whether the assumptions behind this theory are fulf...

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Autores principales: Ackermann, Martin, Schauerte, Alexandra, Stearns, Stephen C, Jenal, Urs
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2174458/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17662151
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-7-126

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2174458/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17662151
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-7-126

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