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Disposable Soma Theory and the Evolution of Maternal Effects on Ageing

Maternal effects are ubiquitous in nature and affect a wide range of offspring phenotypes. Recent research suggests that maternal effects also contribute to ageing, but the theoretical basis for these observations is poorly understood. Here we develop a simple model to derive expectations for (i) if...

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Autores principales: van den Heuvel, Joost, English, Sinead, Uller, Tobias
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4709080/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26752635
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0145544