Evolutionary explanations of the "actuarial senescence in the wild" and of the "state of senility"

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Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages 1086-1108

  Libertini, Giacinto ^a  

^a NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Actuarial senescence; Age changes; Age associated diseases; Aging; Evolution; Mortality rate; Senescence

Indexed keywords

AGING; BIRD; CELL DIVISION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA MODIFICATION; DOMINANT GENE; GERONTOLOGY; LIFE TABLE; MORTALITY; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PLEIOTROPY; PREDICTION; REVIEW; SENESCENCE; SENILITY; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; TELOMERE; WILD ANIMAL;

ALIAS; VERTEBRATA;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; APOPTOSIS; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SELECTION (GENETICS); TELOMERE;

EID: 33748857195     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1100/tsw.2006.209     Document Type: Review

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