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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...
Autores principales: | Chapman, Simon N., Jackson, John, Htut, Win, Lummaa, Virpi, Lahdenperä, Mirkka |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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