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Asian elephants exhibit post-reproductive lifespans

BACKGROUND: The existence of extended post-reproductive lifespan is an evolutionary puzzle, and its taxonomic prevalence is debated. One way of measuring post-reproductive life is with post-reproductive representation, the proportion of adult years lived by females after cessation of reproduction. A...

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Autores principales: Chapman, Simon N., Jackson, John, Htut, Win, Lummaa, Virpi, Lahdenperä, Mirkka
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6805341/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31638893
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-019-1513-1