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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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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |