Senescence is more important in the natural lives of long- than short-lived mammals

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Turbill, Christopher ^a   Ruf, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FITNESS; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; MAMMAL; NATURAL POPULATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENESCENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL RATE; ADULT; ANIMAL; GENETIC SELECTION; LONGEVITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION;

MAMMALIA;

ADULT; AGING; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MICE; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION, GENETIC; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 77957783953     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012019     Document Type: Article

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