Density dependence triggers runaway selection of reduced senescence

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2580-2589

  Seymour, Robert M ^a   Doncaster, C Patrick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY;

DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DENSITY-DEPENDENT; GENERALIZED MODELS; INDEPENDENT COMPONENTS; LIFE HISTORY; LIFESPANS; MORTALITY RISK; NATURAL SELECTION; SOMATIC GROWTH; SPECTRA'S;

HEALTH;

AGING; ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; GENE MUTATION; LIFE HISTORY; NATURAL SELECTION; ONSET AGE; POPULATION DENSITY DEPENDENCE; REPRODUCTION; RUNAWAY BEHAVIOR; SENESCENCE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC SELECTION; HUMAN; LONGEVITY; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SURVIVAL RATE;

HYDRA; PINUS ARISTATA;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORTALITY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 37849014371     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030256     Document Type: Article

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