The evolution of ageing

Bioscience Horizons

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 77-84

  Milewski, Lucy A K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Antagonistic pleiotropy; Evolution; Mutation accumulation; Replicative senescence; Telomeres

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860288584     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17547431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biohorizons/hzq001     Document Type: Review

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