Evolution of aging and late life

Experimental Evolution: Concepts, Methods, and Applications of Selection Experiments

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 570-603

  Rauser, Casandra L ^a   Mueller, Laurence D ^a   Travisano, Michael ^b   Rose, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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