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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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BioMed Central
2007
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| 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 |