Sex effects on life span and senescence in the wild when dates of birth and death are unknown

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1698-1707

  Zajitschek, Felix ^a,c   Brassil, Chad E ^b   Bonduriansky, Russell ^a   Brooks, Robert C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^c Station d'Ecologie Experimentale du CNRS Moulis ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Aging; Black field cricket; Capture mark recapture; Gompertz; Natural population; Open population; Sex differences; Sexual dimorphism; Teleogryllus commodus

Indexed keywords

EMLA; LIDOCAINE; PRILOCAINE;

AGING; ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; CRICKET; LIFE HISTORY; LIFE TABLE; LONGEVITY; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MORTALITY; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; SENESCENCE; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; GRYLLIDAE; LONGEVITY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GRYLLIDAE; LIDOCAINE; LONGEVITY; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PRILOCAINE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GRYLLIDAE; MAMMALIA; TELEOGRYLLUS COMMODUS; TELEOGRYLLUS OCEANICUS;

EID: 66149190008     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-0048.1     Document Type: Article

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