When stress predicts a shrinking gene pool, trading early reproduction for longevity can increase fitness, even with lower fecundity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Ratcliff, William C ^a   Hawthorne, Peter ^a   Travisano, Michael ^a   Denison, R Ford ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIET RESTRICTION; ECOLOGICAL GENETICS; FERTILITY; FITNESS; FOOD INTAKE; GENE POOL; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION SIZE; PREDICTION; REPRODUCTION; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAT; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; RATTUS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; FERTILITY; LONGEVITY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RATS; REPRODUCTION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67649476236     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006055     Document Type: Article

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