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Interaction Mortality: Senescence May Have Evolved because It Increases Lifespan

Given an extrinsic challenge, an organism may die or not depending on how the threat interacts with the organism's physiological state. To date, such interaction mortality has been only a minor factor in theoretical modeling of senescence. We describe a model of interaction mortality that does...

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Autores principales: Wensink, Maarten J., Wrycza, Tomasz F., Baudisch, Annette
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4192302/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25299047
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0109638