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Inclusive fitness effects can select for cancer suppression into old age

Natural selection can favour health at youth or middle age (high reproductive value) over health at old age (low reproductive value). This means, all else being equal, selection for cancer suppression should dramatically drop after reproductive age. However, in species with significant parental inve...

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Autores principales: Brown, Joel S., Aktipis, C. Athena
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4581037/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26056358
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0160