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Mutation Accumulation May Only Be a Minor Force in Shaping Life-History Traits, Even when Reproduction Is Sexual

In a previous theoretical study we investigated whether adaptive or non-adaptive processes are more important in the evolution of senescence. We built a model that combined both processes and found that mutation accumulation is important only at those ages where mortality has a negligible impact on...

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Autores principales: Dańko, Maciej Jan, Kozłowski, Jan
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/PMC3485158/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23118976
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0048302