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Pathogen evolution within host individuals as a primary cause of senescence

This paper discusses a novel theory of senescence: the community of pathogens within each host individual evolves during the life-time of the host, and in doing so progressively reduces host vigour. I marshal evidence that asymptomatic host individuals maintain persistent populations of viral pathog...

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Autor principal: Bell, Graham
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1993
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7087926/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8125270
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01435985