Peto's paradox revisited: Theoretical evolutionary dynamics of cancer in wild populations

Evolutionary Applications

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 109-116

  Roche, Benjamin ^a,b   Sprouffske, Kathleen ^c   Hbid, Hassan ^a,d   Missé, Dorothée ^b,e   Thomas, Frédéric ^b,e  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b Universite de Montpellier   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d CADI AYYAD UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Biomedicine; Disease biology; Evolutionary medicine; Evolutionary theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872798905     PISSN: 17524563     EISSN: 17524571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/eva.12025     Document Type: Article

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