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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...
Autores principales: | Wensink, Maarten J., Wrycza, Tomasz F., Baudisch, Annette |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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