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On age-specific selection and extensive lifespan beyond menopause
Standard evolutionary theory of ageing predicts weaker purifying selection on genes critical to later life stages. Prolonged post-reproductive lifespan (PPRLS), observed only in a few species like humans, is likely a result of disparate relaxation of purifying selection on survival and reproduction...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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The Royal Society
2020
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7277242/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32537201 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191972 |