The shaping of senescence in the wild

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 458-463

  Williams, Paul D ^a   Day, Troy ^b   Fletcher, Quinn ^a   Rowe, Locke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; MATURATION; MORTALITY RISK; SENESCENCE;

AGING; ANIMAL; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; REVIEW; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AGING; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 33745991937     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2006.05.008     Document Type: Review

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