Effects of extrinsic mortality on the evolution of aging: A stochastic modeling approach

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Shokhirev, Maxim Nikolaievich ^a   Johnson, Adiv Adam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FERTILITY; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; MATING; MORTALITY; POPULATION; POPULATION SIZE; PREDATION; PREDICTION; SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

AGING; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 84906340898     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086602     Document Type: Article

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