Antagonistic pleiotropy, mortality source interactions, and the evolutionary theory of senescence

Evolution

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1478-1488

  Williams, Paul D ^a   Day, Troy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antagonistic pleiotropy; Evolution; Extrinsic hazard; Interactions; Senescence

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; MORTALITY RISK; SENESCENCE;

EID: 0042697664     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2003.tb00356.x     Document Type: Review

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