Plants do not count... or do they? New perspectives on the universality of senescence

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 545-554

  Salguero Gómez, Roberto ^a,b   Shefferson, Richard P ^c   Hutchings, Michael J ^d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Antagonistic pleiotropy; Comparative plant demography; Disposable soma; Dormancy; Longevity; Mutation accumulation; Oxidative stress; Plant development and life history traits; Senescence

Indexed keywords

ANTAGONISM; CHROMOSOME; DEMOGRAPHY; DORMANCY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LONGEVITY; MORTALITY; OXIDATION; PLANT; PLEIOTROPY; POPULATION ECOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; SENESCENCE; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84876692301     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12089     Document Type: Article

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