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Variation in actuarial senescence does not reflect life span variation across mammals
The concept of actuarial senescence (defined here as the increase in mortality hazards with age) is often confounded with life span duration, which obscures the relative role of age-dependent and age-independent processes in shaping the variation in life span. We use the opportunity afforded by the...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6760812/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31518381 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000432 |