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Aging in a Long-Lived Clonal Tree

From bacteria to multicellular animals, most organisms exhibit declines in survivorship or reproductive performance with increasing age (“senescence”) [1],[2]. Evidence for senescence in clonal plants, however, is scant [3],[4]. During asexual growth, we expect that somatic mutations, which negative...

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Autores principales: Ally, Dilara, Ritland, Kermit, Otto, Sarah P.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2923084/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20808953
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000454