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Parallel evolution of senescence in annual fishes in response to extrinsic mortality
BACKGROUND: Early evolutionary theories of aging predict that populations which experience low extrinsic mortality evolve a retarded onset of senescence. Experimental support for this theory in vertebrates is scarce, in part for the difficulty of quantifying extrinsic mortality and its condition- an...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3623659/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23551990 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-13-77 |