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Mutation Accumulation May Be a Minor Force in Shaping Life History Traits

Is senescence the adaptive result of tradeoffs between younger and older ages or the nonadaptive burden of deleterious mutations that act at older ages? To shed new light on this unresolved question we combine adaptive and nonadaptive processes in a single model. Our model uses Penna's bit-stri...

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Autores principales: Dańko, Maciej Jan, Kozłowski, Jan, Vaupel, James Walton, Baudisch, Annette
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3320907/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22493680
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034146