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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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Autores principales: Terzibasi Tozzini, Eva, Dorn, Alexander, Ng’oma, Enoch, Polačik, Matej, Blažek, Radim, Reichwald, Kathrin, Petzold, Andreas, Watters, Brian, Reichard, Martin, Cellerino, Alessandro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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