Aging in the wild: Insights from free-living and non-model organisms

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 71, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-3

  Fletcher, Quinn E ^a   Selman, Colin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CANINE MODEL; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FREE LIVING ORGANISM; HUMAN; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LONGEVITY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NON MODEL ORGANISM; ORGANISMS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; SEXUAL SELECTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL; WILD ANIMAL;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 84946557713     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: 18736815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2015.09.015     Document Type: Editorial

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